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3rd November 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

UK in Macedonia

Why we wear poppies

On 11 November we will mark the ninety-eighth anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War. The guns on the Western Front finally fell silent at eleven o’clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 after four years of war which left millions of victims and devastated countries. Each year […]

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7th November 2012 Washington DC, USA

by Major General Buster Howes

Defence Attaché

Why We Wear the Poppy

Sunday marks the ninety-fourth anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War. The guns on the Western Front finally fell silent at eleven o’clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 after four years of fighting which had claimed the lives of sixteen million and maimed a further twenty million. […]

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