Today, at 11 am on Monday 11th November we joined many others across the country in a two minute silence. This is done to mark the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the armistice was signed to bring the end of WWI.
Armistice Day, otherwise known as Remembrance Day, is a national day of remembrance to honour people who have died in war.
This tradition was first started 100 years ago by King George V in 1919. One year after WWI ended, King George asked the public to hold a silence at 11am to honour the war dead. He did so to ensure the “thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead”.
