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Cenotaph Parade – London, England 2015

More Images can be seen here. Published by Peter A. Dickens · 13 November at 14:33 A full contingent of South African Legion Legionnaires laid a wreath in the world…
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Remembrance Day

At approximately 05:00 on Monday, 11 November 1918, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage of Marshall Foch’s special train at Rethondes, just outside Paris in the forest of…
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The Two Minute Silence

Origins of the Two Minute Silence.   Throughout the Great War, whenever South African Troops suffered losses a period of silence was observed at noon in Cape Town.    In…
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