Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, is held on November 11 each year. Remembrance Sunday is held in the day’s honour, falling on the second Sunday in November each year.

What time is the two-minute silence?

Two minutes of silence will be held at 11am on Sunday.

This marks the moment World War One officially ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918.

This year also marks 100 years since the first two-minute silence was held in 1919, one year after the war ended.

The Royal British Legion has urged the nation to pause their daily activities to join in the act of remembrance on Sunday.

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This moment of silence starts the service at the Cenotaph memorial in London.

The service will honour the Armed Forces community, British and Commonwealth veterans, the Allies that fought alongside the UK and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two World Wars and later conflicts.

Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson will break away from the election campaign to attend the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.

Prince Charles will lay a wreath during the service on behalf of the Queen, who will watch from a balcony.

Also in attendance will be the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Following the service, up to 10,000 war veterans will march in a slow procession past the war memorial.

Elsewhere, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will lay a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance at Edinburgh City Chambers before giving a reading at the service at St Giles’ Cathedral.

Other ceremonies will take place at war memorials and churches throughout the country, as well as abroad.

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Why do we hold a two-minute silence?

The first two-minute silence in Britain was held on November 11, 1919, when King George V asked the public to observe a silence at 11am.

This was one year after the end of World War One.

He made the request so “the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead”.

This year marks 100 years since the first-ever two-minute silence was observed.

Why do we wear poppies?

The reason poppies are used to remember those who have given their lives in battle is because they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World War One ended.

This is described in the famous World War One poem In Flanders Fields.

Ever since then, they have come to be a symbol of remembering not just those who gave their lives in World War One, but all those who have died on behalf of their country.

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