Armistice Day – Two minutes’ silence on 11 November

poppy field

To mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, the University will take part in the national two minutes’ silence at 11am on 11 November.

Armistice Day marks the cease fire signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France. This took place at 11am the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.

The red remembrance poppy has become the emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. Poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I.