CULTURE

                                     

On the 11th. November 1918, The First World War came to an end and now 11th. November has become REMEMBRANCE DAY.

An  Australian man called Edward George Honey wrote to the London Evening News in 1919. In his letter he said he wanted people to stop one day and think about the soldiers who died in the war. King George the Fifth saw the letter and agreed, so he asked everyone to stop work and remember the dead. And so in the UK and other countries people are silent for two minutes at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

The nearest Sunday to 11th. November is REMEMBRANCE DAY. In towns and cities young and old soldiers walk  together in parades to remember the soldiers who died in all the different wars.

In London, The Queen and the Prime Minister put flowers on the big war memorial called the Cenotaph.

The poppy is the symbol of this day.

This year marks 100 years since the end of the First World War, with tributes in the shape of films, poetry and exhibitions taking place over the course of 2018.