Signing of the Armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
This month, as with every November, armed forces personnel who died while serving their country will be remembered.
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them on Armistice Day, Thursday, November 11.
The Armistice was an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations and began at 11am on November 11, 1918.
Armistice is Latin for to stand (still) arms.
To this day we mark Armistice Day around the United Kingdom with a two minute silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.
Armistice Day is also known as Remembrance Day. Remembrance Sunday is also marked each year, this falls on the second Sunday in November.
From 1921 to 1930, Armistice Day was held on the Monday of the week in which November 11 fell.
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ended.
Just after 5am that morning, Germany, which had little manpower or supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France.
The anniversary of the Armistice agreement is not observed in Germany.
However, the German national day of mourning is the secular public holiday of Volkstrauertag, which since 1952 has been observed two Sundays before the first Sunday of Advent – the Sunday closest to November 16. There were 10,944 casualties, of whom 2,738 men died, on the last day of the war.
The Cenotaph in London was unveiled by King George V (1865-1936) on Armistice
Day – November 11, 1920. The unveiling ceremony was part of a larger procession which saw the procession of the Unknown Warrior on his final journey to burial at Westminster Abbey.