Wooden crosses are placed at Westminster Abbey in London, UK, to mark Remembrance Day on November 11 [AFP]
Published On 11 Nov 200811 Nov 2008
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Remembrance Day, also known as Poppy Day, commemorates citizens and members of the armed forces who have died during wartime [AFP]
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II joined the annual ceremony at The Cenotaph in London, which this year marked the 90 years since the end of the first world war [AFP]
A child wearing an old fashioned army uniform watches the service at The Cenotaph, London [AFP]
Services are held on the closest Sunday to Remembrance Day as well as on the day itself, with political figures, veterans and citizens attending [AFP]
Veterans from the Indian sub-continent, Africa and the Caribbean who fought in the British army attended events [AFP]
War veterans and members of the public in Sydney, Australia, honoured the more than 61,000 Australians who died in the first world war [AFP]
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US soldiers salute during a ceremony for the US day of remembrance at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan. About 400 soldiers attended a wreath-laying ceremony [AFP]
A British woman and her daughter look at graves of about 1,200 casualties of the two world wars at Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon [EPA]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prince Charles, and other dignitaries led an event near Verdun, eastern France, the scene of one of the longest battles of the first world war [AFP]
Naval personnel react as they look at crosses laid at Westminster Abbey in London [AFP]
Ex-servicewomen lay crosses to remember those who died 90 years ago in the "war to end all wars" [AFP]
US President-elect Barack Obama lays a wreath with a Gulf War veteran at the Bronze Soldiers Memorial in Chicago [EPA]
While in New York, members of the US air force march in an annual Veterans Day parade [EPA]
