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Armistice Day: Two-minute silence held across country

The nation fell silent for two minutes at 11am in remembrance of our war dead.

The Armistice Day commemorations were led by Prince Harry, who laid a wreath at the National Memorial Arboretum on the 98th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

In France, President Francois Hollande led commemorations by laying a wreath at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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UK remembers the fallen on Armistice Day

A two-minute silence was held across the country at 11am as the nation paid their respects to the war dead on Armistice Day.

Prince Harry lead the nation in remembrance, laying a wreath at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire and reading The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke.

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