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Remembrance Day, is commemorated every year on November 11, as a day of memorial to honour those who have died in war.
The memorial evolved out of Armistice Day, to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I. This took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918.
.. We will remember them
These photographs document memorial services held on Remembrance Day (Armistace Day) at the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney. They were taken in the 1930s, by well-known Australian photographer Sam Hood.
The State Library of New South Wales holds a large collection of photographs depicting services on Remembrance Day in Australia.
