Lest we forget: Armistice Day services held across UK to remember the fallen

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Veterans, soldiers, politicians and mourners united in observing a two-minute silence at 11am with many braving rain and bitter cold to pay their respects.

Published: 12:52 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 13:38 GMT, 11 November 2026

Britain paid tribute to its fallen heroes today with Armistice Day services held across the country.

Veterans, soldiers, politicians and mourners united in observing a two-minute silence at 11am with many braving rain and bitter cold to pay their respects.

An Armistice Day service was held at the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens in Alrewas, Staffordshire, where the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester laid a wreath and observed the silence.

The pair were then taken around the memorial, also known as the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens, before speaking with members of the public who attended the service.

Last year, the Princess of Wales attended the service in Alrewas and joined veterans in honouring fallen soldiers, before laying a wreath in memory of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord Forsyth of Drumlean laid poppy wreaths at the Angel Memorial in Westminster Hall, in the Houses of Parliament, to mark the end of the First World War.

They were joined by Massachusetts senate president Karen Spilka, who read a poem.

Sir Lindsay then processed to the Lower Waiting Hall of the House of Commons for a Turning the Page ceremony remembering Alan Scott Balfour, who died in 1918.

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