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Remembrance

28 images Created 9 Nov 2009

The faces of fallen British service men and women are on crosses in the churchyard of Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London England.

With the traditional poppies that have focussed a nation on the years of tragic conflict, the emphasis nowadays is not so much of the elderly who fought in the two world wars but increasingly of those younger soldiers killed in the Falklands, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The capital's police force are often drawn from ex-members of the military and many chose to wear their medals on this day.

The country's Remembrance parades are held annually at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month - the day hostilities ceased in 1918.

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  • Granite reliefs depicting suffering in First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed in Afghanistan, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed in Afghanistan, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen Somerset regiments soldiers killed in action, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • A makeshift artistic memorial to those fallen in past wars, stretched across trees in Hilly Fields, Ladywell, south London.
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  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
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  • Serving Royal Military Policeman pays respects to fallen soldiers, killed during recent conflicts, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.The Royal Military Police (RMP) are the Army's specialists in Investigations and Policing and are responsible for policing the military community worldwide.
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  • Metropolitan Policeman wearing poppy and army medals on Remembrance Sunday
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  • Bronze statue of soldiers commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • Relatives and friends pay respects to fallen soldiers, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • RAF musicians play near full-size Spitfire replica at the 70th anniversary of WW2 Battle of Britain.
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  • Wartime forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn makes an appearance near Spitfire fighter plane at the 70th anniversary of WW2 Battle of Britain.
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  • RAF musicians play near full-size Spitfire replica at the 70th anniversary of WW2 Battle of Britain.
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  • A cross in sunlight shows the Katyn memorial set in a forest in Warsaw, Poland. The Katyn war cemetery is a Polish military cemetery located in Warsaw commemorating the massacre of Polish officers during the second world war although the town of Katyn is a small village near Smolensk, Russia. It contains the remnants of 4,412 Polish officers of the Kozelsk prisoner of war camp, who were murdered in 1940 in what is called the Katyn massacre. The soldiers were buried in six large mass graves. Until 1991 it was known that the Nazis were responsible but after the end of Communism did they Russians admit that Stalin's forces killed the Poles. There is also a Russian part of the cemetery, where an undisclosed number of victims of the Soviet Great Purges of the 1930's were buried by the NKVD. The cemetery was officially opened in 2000.
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  • Marching grenadier bandsmen pass the war memorial in Horseguards Parade on the Queen's official Trooping the Colour ceremony
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  • Relatives and friends remember the missing a week after the attacks on the twin towers on 9/11. During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, eccentric New Yorkers gather at the city's Armory to offer help and support by handing our fluffy bunnies to passers-by. The streets between 66th and 67th Streets, in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, DNA samples were taken at the Armory so human remains might be identified. It was therefore a point of focus for those with missing relatives who attached thousands of posters to walls with pictures and messages to loved-ones in the hope of being reunited. Emotions were running high and many citizens offered spiritual aide such as food and drink. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as  America sought to express their emotions and unity..
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  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • English visitors pay respects to commonwealth war dead at the Poziere cemetery near Albert, where those killed in the Battle of the Somme are buried or are rememberd..
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  • Visitors pay respects to the war dead from the first world war at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A total of 700,000 troops were killed on the Western Front, of whom 300,000 have no known grave..
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A teacher, said ?Children become aware that there is something out there beyond their own little lives.'.
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  • Young children read some of 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Neat rows of head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Attending to a floral memorial of Lillies in a 5th Avenue store front in mid-town Manhattan. In the days following the September 11th attacks, a store window dresser is seen through the glass with Fifth Avenue reflected behind. The words "In Memory and Gratitude" are written in block capitals on the window and a passer-by walks briskly past the large floral display and the large US flag that hangs vertically in mourning for those killed and those heroes helping to uncover their remains in the debris. America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity by installing these shrines in the frontages of businesses and in homes as New Yorkers try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
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  • Circling the base of the Washington Memorial in Washington DC, American flags fly at half-mast in the week after the September 11th attacks on the USA. A young couple lie on the grass beneath this magnificant obelisk that reaches beyond the top of frame into a clear blue sky. A sense of patriotism is running high with the country in a state of national mourning as flags alll over the country are lowered to remember those killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon here in the nation's capital and in Pennsylvania. the US sought to express their anger and patriotic unity with gestures at public monuments and in the privacy of the home. The 555 foot (170m) high marble, granite and sandstone Memorial on the National Mall honours George Washington. Completed in 1884, it remains the world's tallest stone structure.
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  • At dawn, a week after the September 11th attacks in New York and in Washington DC, we see the haunted figures of war veterans looking up at the names of dead comrades of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens, Washington DC where 58,195 names of casualties are recorded on its polished wall. In the foreground are some of those mens' identities whose average age was 19 in the sixties and seventies. A hazy sun rises over the point of the Washington Memorial at a time when the nation was mourning those killed in the New York and Washington attacks, when the military was about to mobilise once again with many American lives lost. The Vietnam war however, remains a low-point in the nation's history and the old men who survived return to trace their buddies which helps them deal with the traumatic loss of their friends and their own youth. .
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