Civic Commemorations & National Days

Remembrance Day

A memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries on 11 November to honour military personnel who died in the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts, marked by the wearing of red poppies, two minutes of silence at 11:00 AM, and wreath-laying ceremonies at war memorials. The date commemorates the armistice that ended the First World War at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, blending personal grief with collective national gratitude in one of the most solemn civic occasions of the Commonwealth calendar.

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