Remembrance Day

On 11 November 1918 at 11:00, the signing of the Armistice of Compiégne put an end to the First World War, ending the fighting on the Western Front. This day is Remembrance Day, which has been held since 1939 on the Sunday nearest to 11 November. (It was moved to Sunday by the United Kingdom in order not to interfere with wartime production). Traditionally, on Remembrance Sunday people commemorate the fallen of the wars by observing a two-minute silence and wearing poppies, the flower of the battlefields.

Following a yearslong tradition, the ambassadors, consuls, military attachés working in Hungary and the representatives of the Ministry of Defence pay tribute to the heroes and victims in the British and Commonwealth War Cemetery (Solymár). On 12 November this year, Deputy Minister of Defence Tamás Vargha, Parliamentary State Secretary and Maj.-Gen. István Szabó, the Deputy Chief of Defence for Coordination placed the wreath of remembrance on behalf of the Ministry of Defence at the Solymár memorial, where Iain Lindsay, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Hungary delivered a short speech.

Photo: Mária Krasznai-Nehrebeczky