Lest we forget

THE King leading tributes on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in Whitehall was a changing of the royal guard.

The absence of Queen Elizabeth II, a fixture at national moments for 70 years, is a change that still requires some getting used to.

The ranks of veterans from past conflicts are thinned every November, but what never changes is the comradeship of men and women who served together.

We owe a debt of honour to those of whom poet John Maxwell Edmonds said: “For your tomorrows these gave their today.”