Nation falls silent in remembrance on Armistice Day

Background: Armistice Day

Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am - the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 - although, according to Thomas R.⁴