Overview
- Members of the Royal Family, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and senior politicians will lay wreaths during the National Service of Remembrance in London.
- About 10,000 veterans will take part in the Royal British Legion march-past, representing more than 300 Armed Forces and civilian groups.
- Roughly 20 surviving Second World War veterans, including 101-year-olds Donald Poole and Sid Machin and 98-year-old Eileen Marshall, are expected to attend.
- The two-minute silence begins at 11:00, with the march starting at 11:25, and thousands of people are expected to line Whitehall.
- Government and military leaders, including Starmer, Defence Secretary John Healey and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, issued messages urging remembrance, with national TV and radio coverage available.