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Remembrance Day background and commemoration

 

 


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Origin of Remembrance Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Tradition and background

 

 

 


Remembrance Day 2025
 is
Tuesday
11 November

 
Remembrance Day 11 November (Department of Veterans' Affairs)

 Origins of Remembrance Day (anzacwebsites)

 Origin of Remembrance Day (awm.gov.au)
 Why Remembrance Day is special to Australians.

Origin of Remembrance Day (dva.gov.au)
- History of Remembrance Day
- One minute's silence
- The unknown Australian soldier

Original Armistice documents, 1918 (awm.gov.au)
 Cablegram on the signing of the Armistice with Germany, wireless signal on the 1918 ceasefire, map, United Returned Soldiers' Fund memorial card.

Remembrance Day (RSL NSW)

Remember to Remember (RSL Queensland)

Remembrance Day (Wikipedia)

November 11 (Wikipedia)

Remembrance Day National Ceremony (awm.gov.au)
 Scroll down for photographs from 11 November 1918

 
The use of poppies and rosemary

Remembering (poppytime.com)
 Includes links to sites on using the poppy for remembrance in several countries.

 The Poppy (From diggerhistory.info, archived by the NLA's Pandora Archive on 6 Mar 2010. See also our "Where is Digger History?" page.)
 - The Poppy of Remembrance: A History
- The Anzac Day Difference
- The Poppy from the NZ perspective

Red poppies as a symbol of commemoration in Australia (dva.gov.au)

 Rosemary as a symbol of commemoration in Australia (dva.gov.au)

 


Pigeon holding poppy (Image: awm.gov.au)SPECIAL STORY 2019
 Pigeon poppy thief
The pigeon who stole from the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Australian War Memorial


Photos and posters Posters for Veterans Day and Remembrance Day (poppytime.com)

One of the Remembrance Day posters downloadable from the DVA websiteRemembrance Day posters (Archived version of DVA page)

Remembrance Day (Australian War Memorial)
Includes photographs taken in 1918 as well as link to Flickr photograph collection.

Remembrance Day Photos 2009 (ABC)

 Poster image

 
Remembrance Day ceremonies

 
See our other pages related to ceremonies:

      ● Remembrance Day ceremonies
      ● Remembrance Day speeches
      ● Remembrance Day poems and
     ● Remembrance Day music: bugle calls and anthems, hymns, modern music

 

 
Videos, audio Behind the News: World War 1, Remembrance Day (ABC)

Armistice Day, 1918 (National film and Sound Archive)

     ● See also Slideshow videos

 
Lesson material for Remembrance Day

 
See our:

● Remembrance Day lesson materials page

and our Anzac Kids site for interactive activities for students

plus our Anzac Day Websites lesson activities, including
- Colour-in activities
- Craft activities and 
- ICT activities (classroom exercise using Word to make a poppy wreath)

 
News stories Using AI to find news stories on Remembrance Day

Try copying one of these AI prompts and pasting it into Google or ChatGPT:

Could you provide some links to free, open-access news stories about the previous Remembrance Day.

Could you provide some links to free, open-access news stories about the previous Remembrance Day in my area.

Could you provide some links to free, open-access news stories with plenty of photographs about the previous Remembrance Day in my country.

Could you provide some links to free, open-access news stories about the next Remembrance Day.
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See our other pages:

     ● Remembrance Day ceremonies

    ● Remembrance Day speeches

    ● Remembrance Day poems 

    ● Remembrance Day music

● Origin of Remembrance Day

● Lesson material

● Remembrance Day crosswords

● Anzac Day Websites

 

 

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