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2. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway, 1946. Hemingway was 18 years old when he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for WWI.
THE Armistice between the Allies and Germany began at 11am on November 11, 1918, signalling the beginning of the end of the First World War. A two-minute silence is observed on Remembrance Day to ...
The first Armistice Day was observed on November 11, 1919, to mark the first anniversary of the end of the First World War. Remembrance Sunday has been held ever since on the nearest Sunday to ...
Remembrance crosses with poppies are placed in front of the headstone of 15-year old World War I soldier Valentine Strudwick at Essex Farm Commonwealth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium (Picture: AP) ...
Published in 1915 after the end of the First World War, this poem by John McCrae was first published in Punch. The poem is better known in the US, where it is read on Veterans’ Day and Memorial Day: ...
You are likely to hear Laurence Binyon’s words on Sunday but what other quotes have been associated with Remembrance Sunday?