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In Europe and America, however, there were no comparable public occasions to mourn the lost generation.
The first Remembrance Day service took place at the Cenotaph memorial in London on the first anniversary of the war's end and it was called Armistice Day.

The commemoration was instigated by King George V and soon spread across the British Empire, as well as France and the USA.

But it was Australian Edward Honey, a journalist who had fought with the British Army before being medically discharged, who first suggested the custom of holding a minute's or two minutes' silence at 11am. He had been angered by seeing people joyously celebrating the armistice in London in 1918 and argued a 'bitter-sweet silence' would be a more fitting tribute to the dead.

In Australia, Anzac Day had already been established in 1916 to honour the Australians who had died at Gallipoli and other campaigns.

After the Second World War, the name Armistice Day was changed to Remembrance Day as it was decided the day should honour all Australia's fallen, not only those from the First World War.

Queen Street, Brisbane at 1:45 pm on 12 November, 1918, with people celebrating the end of World War One
Image Source:State Library of Queensland

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After four years of bloodshed and bombardment, peace descended eerily on Europe's Western Front at 11am on November 11, 1918. It was the moment the armistice came into effect - an agreement among Germany and the Allied Powers of France, Great Britain and the USA to end the First World War.

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Remembrance Day National Ceremony

Traditionally on Remembrance Day the Australian War Memorial hosts the nation's key commemoration. The Remembrance Day National Ceremony included a Catafalque party, formal wreath laying and the observance of a minute's silence at 11am. The Commemorative Address was given by Australian War Memorial Director, Mr Matt Anderson PSM.
This years ceremony also included the participation and support of Australia's Federation Guard and the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

To ensure the health and safety of visitors and staff and in line with the ACT Government's COVID-19 guidelines, 500 ticketed attendees were permitted at the 2021 National Ceremony.

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Traditionally on Remembrance Day the Australian War Memorial hosts the nation's key commemoration. The Remembrance Day National Ceremony included a Catafalque party, formal wreath laying and the observance of a minute's silence at 11am. The Commemorative Address was given by Australian War Memorial Director, Mr Matt Anderson PSM.

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https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/remembrance-day/traditions

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On the second anniversary of the armistice in 1920 the commemoration was given added significance when it became a funeral, with the return of the remains of an unknown soldier from the battlefields of the Western Front. Unknown soldiers were interred with full military honours in Westminster Abbey in London and at the Arc de Triumph in Paris. The entombment in London attracted over one million people within a week to pay their respects at the unknown soldier's tomb. Most other allied nations adopted the tradition of entombing unknown soldiers over the following decade.

After the end of the Second World War, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day. Armistice Day was no longer an appropriate title for a day which would commemorate all war dead.

In Australia on the 75th anniversary of the armistice in 1993 Remembrance Day ceremonies again became the focus of national attention. The remains of an unknown Australian soldier, exhumed from a First World War military cemetery in France, were ceremonially entombed in the Memorial's Hall of Memory. Remembrance Day ceremonies were conducted simultaneously in towns and cities all over the country, culminating at the moment of burial at 11 am and coinciding with the traditional two minutes' silence. This ceremony, which touched a chord across the Australian nation, re-established Remembrance Day as a significant day of commemoration.

Four years later, in 1997, Governor-General Sir William Deane issued a proclamation formally declaring 11 November to be Remembrance Day, urging all Australians to observe one minute's silence at 11 am on 11 November each year to remember those who died or suffered for Australia's cause in all wars and armed conflicts.

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On the second anniversary of the armistice in 1920 the commemoration was given added significance when it became a funeral, with the return of the remains of an unknown soldier from the battlefields of the Western Front. Unknown soldiers were interred with full military honours in Westminster Abbey in London and at the Arc de Triumph in Paris.

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The First World War ended almost a century ago but a group of primary school kids are reliving some of the soldier's tales. A memorial walk was built last year to honour past students who died in the Vietnam War and in World Wars One and Two.