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A final poppy plant of 888,246 ceramic poppies has been planted by a teenage army cadet on Tuesday at the Tower of London, representing each of the commonwealth servicemen and women killed in the First World War, as the Britain marked Armistice Day to honour the fallen heroes.
A crowd of thousands of individuals gathered at the place to pay tributes to the millions of British servicemen and women who have died in conflict since the beginning of the World War One a century ago. The crowd stood for the traditional two-minute silence commemorating all those who have given their lives during the conflict.
The big crowd watched the 13-years-old Cadet Harry Hayes at the Tower of London as he has completed the installation of “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” before the traditional two-minute silence at 11:00 am (1100 GMT) to mark the end of WW-I at the same time on November 11, 1918.
The former army chief General Richard Dannatt, who is now serving as the Constable of the Tower of London, has said: “I think it is that specific number of 888,246 that actually has brought the commemorative installation alive to people. Because that number represents a mass army, but they’re individuals and individual whose life was lost, a family shattered.
“I think the five million people who have come to see this understand what the effect would be of losing a family member.”
Lord Dannatt has added: “The silence today is typical of what’s been happening all the time for the last few weeks. Every evening at dusk we’ve read the names of 200 of the fallen and you could a pin drop on any of those occasions.
“And even during the afternoons and the mornings when there have been tens of thousands of people coming it has been very hushed, it’s been very reverent, it’s been very reflective, it’s been very emotion. It’s been probably very British – in a rather un-British way.”
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has also paid his respects at the Cenotaph, along with hundreds of civil servants from the surrounding ministries.
Thousands more people assembled nearby Trafalgar Square, where poppies were dropped into the fountains.
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