On the " eleventh hour of the 11th daylight of the eleventh month " of 1918 , hostilities on the Western Front of World War I cease in response to the armistice signed by the Allies and Germany . Each year since , on the day of remembrance of that appointment , the ally nations honour member of their armed military force on the so - call Armistice Day . While we now call it something different here in America , the sentiment is the same . So let ’s take a look at how unlike countries paid respect to warfare vet , retiring and present , today .
1. Sydney, Australia
In Sydney , Australian veterans gathered for what they call Remembrance Day at the Sydney Cenotaph at Martin Palace . The monument to World War I date to 1927 with an inscription that reads " To Our Glorious Dead " on one side and " Lest We bury " on the other .
2. British Troops In Kandahar, Afghanistan
Active member of the service involve a present moment of silence to honor military men and women who came before them .
3. Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow celebrated Armistice Day with a 27 - minute long narrative light show projected onto the Glasgow City Chambers building .
4. Ottawa, Canada
An estimated 50,000 or more citizenry crowd into Confederation Square today to come in poppy on the Tomb of the unsung Soldier .
5. Edinburgh, Scotland
Veterans and members of the general populace alike gathered at the garden of anamnesis in Princess Street Gardens .
6. Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, France
The Gallic President Francois Hollande marked the anniversary of the armistice today with the unveiling of a novel external state of war memorial at Notre - Dame - de - Lorette . On the so - call The Ring of Memory are the names of 600,000 soldiers from over 40 body politic who died in the region during the state of war .
7. London, England
The Tower of London hosted perhaps the most striking celebration today . Over the past several months , 888,246 glass poppy — one for each of the British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the state of war — have been " planted " in the fosse , with the final heyday added today .
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