LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – King Charles III led the annual memorial ceremony for Britain’s war victims. Under bright sunshine and the shadow of the war in Ukraine, thousands gathered in London to remember the fallen. The ceremony, which takes place every Sunday near the end of the First World War, is a significant event in the British calendar.
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King Charles III led the traditional memorial ceremony for Britain’s war victims last Sunday. In brilliant November weather, thousands of military personnel, veterans and citizens gathered in central London to remember the fallen. The ceremony took place under the impression of the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has kept Europe in suspense for almost four years.
At 11 a.m., when Big Ben’s bell rang, those present paused for two minutes. This silence was broken only by a single artillery shot and the Royal Marines’ trumpet call “The Last Post”. The 76-year-old king, dressed in the uniform of an army field marshal, laid a wreath of red paper poppies at the foot of the Cenotaph war memorial. This memorial, built over a century ago to honor British and Allied soldiers who died in the First World War, is now the central location for annual commemorations.
The national commemoration takes place each Sunday near the anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. Similar commemorations will be held in numerous towns and cities across the UK, as well as at British military bases abroad. A military orchestra played while Prince William, heir to the throne, followed his father and also laid a wreath. Other members of the royal family attended the ceremony, including Prince Edward, the king’s youngest brother.
The wreath-laying ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, other political leaders and diplomats from the Commonwealth. Queen Camilla, the Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family watched the ceremony from a balcony at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Many of the wreaths were made of poppies, and most in attendance wore paper poppies on their lapels. These red flowers, which bloomed in the battlefields and makeshift cemeteries of northern France and Belgium during World War I, have become a symbol of remembrance in Britain and other countries.
After the wreath-laying ceremony, around 10,000 military veterans with shiny medals marched past the Cenotaph, accompanied by cheerful military music and applause from spectators. Among them were about 20 of the few surviving World War II veterans, the youngest of whom is 98 years old. Donald Poole, 101, who served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as an explosives expert, called it a “great honor” to pay tribute to the “poor souls who have died in all conflicts”.
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