remembrance day, 2019
This series of War memorials was photographed on 11th November 2019, the 100th anniversary of Remembrance Day, in Farnham and the surrounding villages.
Sometimes known as Poppy Day, remembrance day commemorates the final day of hostilities at the end of First World War, the day when the armistice was signed by representatives of Germany and the Allied Forces. The fighting formerly ended at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. George V inaugurated the tradition of Remembrance the following year.
The exact number of war memorials in the UK is not officially known but there are tens of thousands of them according to Historic England. Every community sent people off to fight and virtually all suffered losses which created the need for monuments to remember. There has been no greater wave of public remembrance in history.
