Services being held across UK to mark Armistice Day

Services are being held across the UK and around the world to mark Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War One. A national two-minute silence will take place at 11:00 GMT to mark the end of the war and to remember those who have died in all conflicts since. A service at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall will be attended by government ministers, senior international military figures, schoolchildren and cadets.

At Westminster, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord Forsyth will lay wreaths, while Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka will read a poem. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of World War One as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11:00 on 11 November 1918. Commemorations have been taking across Europe on Wednesday and in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony during which a wreath was laid at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

On Remembrance Sunday King Charles III led the nation in a solemn two-minute silence in London to honour veterans who had died in conflict. Copyright © 2026 BBC.