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.

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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.

November 11th 1918: WW1 armistice

On this day in 1918, Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allied powers, thus formally ending combat in the First World War; the agreement was signed in a train carriage in France. Fighting in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history ended at 11am on November 11th, as it marked the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day. Cessation of hostilities meant Allied victory in the war that had raged since 1914, but negotiations continued at the Paris Peace Conference and the war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The Treaty set up a ‘League of Nations’ which was to be a group of countries dedicated to the preservation of global peace. Every year, the Commonwealth nations commemorate the fallen soldiers in Remembrance Day, and hold a two minute silence in their honour. Other nations around the world have similar days of remembrance for the over 10 million soldiers who died in the conflict. We are currently in the centennial years of this terrible conflict, so today’s Remembrance Day is a particularly poignant moment to remember the fallen of the First World War.

Lest we forget

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