Because the clock struck 11am at residence and in timezones the world over, folks paused to mark the ninety fifth anniversary of the Armistice.
In Belgium this afternoon, the Duke of Edinburgh attended a “sacred soil” ceremony alongside troopers of the Family Division, and British and Belgian schoolchildren.
The soil, gathered from some seventy First World Warfare battlefields, can be introduced again to the UK to be the main focus of a Flanders Subject memorial backyard.
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