Armistice Day

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the signing of the agreement which brought the First World War to an end. A two-minute silence is traditionally observed at 11 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) in memory of the fallen, but most events have moved to Remembrance Sunday which is the nearest Sunday to the 11th. Sometimes Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday fall on the same day, as in 2018 which also marked 100 years since the end of the Great War. When 11th falls on any day except Sunday, many places hold a brief Act of Remembrance to mark the anniversary, in addition to the bigger events held on Remembrance Sunday. At Corbridge in Northumberland a short service takes place at St Andrew’s Church at the Lychgate, which was built to honour the 108 local servicemen who were lost in the Great War 1914-18. The Last Post is played, the flag is lowered and the Silence observed, with prayers and the National Anthem.

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Clcik here for the Church: https://www.corbridgechurch.org.uk

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