PowerPoint for Remembrance Day.

1. 11.00am - 11/11
Remembrance Day is commemorated every year on
11th November to mark the armistice signed between
the warring nations of the Great War (1914-1918).
The armistice took effect at eleven o'clock in the
morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of
the eleventh month" of 1918.

2. In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae

3. World War I –
The Great War
On June 28th 1914 a Serbian nationalist assassinated an Austro-
Hungarian royal. Five weeks later, Austria, Russia, Germany, France
and Britain were at war.
Battles lasted months and extended over 400 miles of trenches.
Conscripted soldiers fought from dug-in positions, striking at each
other with machine guns, heavy artillery and chemical weapons.
During the four years of carnage, ten million soldiers would die and a
further twenty one million were wounded.

4. “It is right to remember the extraordinary sacrifice of
a generation and we are all indebted to them because
their most enduring legacy is our liberty”
PM David Cameron

5. Harry Patch
The last surviving soldier of WWI
“I felt then, as I feel now, that the
politicians who took us to war
should have been given the guns
and told to settle their differences
themselves, instead of organising
nothing better than legalised mass
murder.”