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Just two minutes

Schoolgirls in 1918 were warned that Stands to Attention. From the Indian
they might never be married. So many jungles to Alaska, on the trains, on the

prospective husbands had been killed in ships at sea, in every part of the globe
World War 1, that their chances could where a few British were gathered
be slim. It’s hard for us to imagine the together, the Two-Minute pause was
slaughter. observed.’

The total number of The Great War was said
both civilian and to be ‘the war to end all
military casualties is wars’. But it wasn’t.

estimated at around 37 About three per cent of
million people, ending the world population
only when the were to die in World
Armistice took effect War 2. Today’s 11
on the eleventh hour of November

the eleventh day of the commemoration,
eleventh month in repeated on the nearest
1918. Sunday, now

The idea of a ‘Two incorporates all wars.
Minute Silence’ originated in South The Royal British Legion describes the
Africa. The first minute was to be a time Act of Remembrance as a deeply
of thanksgiving for those who had personal act available to everyone,

returned alive, and the second minute acknowledging the service and sacrifice
was to remember the fallen. It was of the Armed Forces and their families,
taken up by King George V, who wrote, across all conflicts.
‘It is my desire and hope that at the In keeping the Two Minute Silence, many
hour when the Armistice came into will long for the day when, in the words
force, there may be for the brief space of the prophet Isaiah, ‘They shall not

of two minutes a complete suspension hurt nor destroy in all my holy
of all our normal activities.’ mountain: for the earth shall be full of

It had an immediate impact. An the knowledge of the Lord, as the
observer wrote, “The whole World waters cover the sea.’

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER

Ludlow’s Civic Service for Remembrance Sunday will begin at the Peace Memorial
in Castle Square. The public is invited to gather from 10.40am. After a parade from

the Castle the service will begin at 10.50am with a two-minute silence at 11am
followed by wreath laying at the memorial and a church service at St Laurence’s
starting at approximately 11.15am.

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