National Service of Remembrance

The National Service of Remembrance is an annual event held on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London, commemorating British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts. The service has its origins in the 1920s and involves a ceremony with national airs, a short religious service, a two-minute silence, wreath-laying, and a march-past of veterans. The Cenotaph, the site of the ceremony, was designed by Edwin Lutyens and built between 1919 and 1920 to replace a temporary wooden structure from the First World War.learn more on wikipedia