Rememberance Sunday/Day

Dancer

Hi everyone,

I have a bit of a history lesson for everyone. On 11th November 1918 at 11am the documents to stop World War One were signed. Every year since 1919 on that day and at 11am there is a 2 minute silence to remember the soldiers that lost their lives in the war as well as survivors.

The 2 minute silence is also observed on the Sunday before. So if Rememberance Day fell on Tuesday 11th November (just an example,) then Rememberance Sunday would be on Sunday 10th November.

Aife

Thanks for putting together this thread @Kasa2103  

I've linked it to our confetti cannon too  

Stephanie

This is a lovely thread  

I watched my nephew walk in the parade this morning, a very proud Auntie moment  

Millie2787

We made this with the children at work and walked them up to lay it at the memorial . They all painted the poppies then we stuck them down 

Dancer

Millie2787 said:

We made this with the children at work and walked them up to lay it at the memorial . They all painted the poppies then we stuck them down 

That is a really lovely thing to make. I love it. Great way of showing that you care.

Dancer

Stephanie said:

This is a lovely thread  

I watched my nephew walk in the parade this morning, a very proud Auntie moment  

Oh wow that is amazing. I could guess that you would have been a very proud auntie. Thank you for the kind words about my thread.

Dancer

Aidan said:

Though the armistice was signed at 5.20 in the morning in a railway carriage in France, the fighting wouldn't end until 11 AM- to make the time and date more memorable. 11,000 people were killed, missing, or injured on the final day of the First World War.

(Later during the Second World War, Hitler would force the French to sign their surrender in the same railway carriage.)

The last casualty of the war is said to be a German officer who approached American soldiers just after 11, and the soldiers, unaware of the end of the war, killed him. Artillery still fired throughout the afternoon.

In 1927, nearly a decade since the war's end, 65,000 men with 'shell-shock' were still in hospitals in Britain.

And the First World War sadly wasn't the war to end all wars it was hoped to be.

Now we use the poppy and the date of the armistice to remember the fallen from all wars.

We will remember them.

Amazing information. Thank you very much. I never actually knew most of that. All I knew was the 11am thing, about shell shock and the poppy. Is it okay to share what you said with the history department at my school? In history we are learning about World War One.

Dancer

Aife said:

Thanks for putting together this thread @Kasa2103  

I've linked it to our confetti cannon too  

Sounds good. Thank you.