Remembrance Day 2021

Remembrance Sunday commemorates the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the armistice took effect and the guns of the Great War fell silent. The first Armistice Day was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the end of the war in 1919. In 1921 the newly formed British Legion started selling red poppies to commemorate the fallen (inspired by the poem “In Flanders Field written in 1915 by Laurence Binyon) so this year marks the 100th anniversary of that traditi