![]() This two-minute BBC children’s animation is a gentle introduction to Remembrance Day. Watch the CBeebies Animation: “Poppies”. ![]() In addition, the second Sunday of each November is known as Remembrance Sunday, and church services remember fallen soldiers while the Queen, members of the Royal Family, politicians and old soldiers lay poppy wreaths at the Cenotaph in London (near the Houses of Parliament) and another two minute silence is observed at 11am. The silence is generally observed at war memorials and in public places throughout the UK and Commonwealth. Held each year at 11am on the 11 th November, the silence coincides with the time in 1918 when fighting in the First World War ceased and the war came to an end.
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