11th of the 11th of the 11th

[Bruce Scott]

In Australia poppy sales begin in the week prior to what is now Remembrance Day.
The money raised is used to help serving and ex-serving members of the ADF who are in need

On the day, veterans and others will gather at the many war memorials throughout the country for a short service, wreath laying and the traditional two minutes silence.

When I was a youngster, in a small country town in WA, a siren sounded at 11:00. In addition to the official service at the memorial, school children assembled at the flagstaff, cars stopped in the street and the occupants alighted, people paused in whatever they were doing to stand silently and . . . . remember.



Poppies on the Wall of Remembrance at the National War Memorial, Canberra.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Laurence Binyon