Remembrance

The faces of fallen British service men and women are on crosses in the churchyard of Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London England.

With the traditional poppies that have focussed a nation on the years of tragic conflict, the emphasis nowadays is not so much of the elderly who fought in the two world wars but increasingly of those younger soldiers killed in the Falklands, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The capital's police force are often drawn from ex-members of the...
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The faces of fallen British service men and women are on crosses in the churchyard of Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London England.

With the traditional poppies that have focussed a nation on the years of tragic conflict, the emphasis nowadays is not so much of the elderly who fought in the two world wars but increasingly of those younger soldiers killed in the Falklands, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The capital's police force are often drawn from ex-members of the military and many chose to wear their medals on this day.

The country's Remembrance parades are held annually at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month - the day hostilities ceased in 1918.
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