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Here is a schedule of the most high profile events taking place on a global day of commemorations.
BRITAIN
• 11am: two-minute silence followed by church bells ringing in unison across Britain.
• Pages of the Sea event devised by Danny Boyle. The faces of first world war heroes will be sculpted in sand on 32 beaches.
• 11am: service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall; veterans’ march-past co-ordinated by Royal British Legion.
• 12.30-1.30pm: the ‘People’s Procession’ – 10,000 people who secured tickets in a public ballot to parade past the Cenotaph.
• 5-10pm: 10,000 flames light up the moat around the Tower of London.
• 6.55pm: buglers sound the Last Post at more than 1,000 locations across Britain, and in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, France, Belgium, Canada, the United States and Germany.
• 7pm: first world war beacons of light will burn across the country to signify the light of peace.
• 7.05pm: church and cathedral bells to ring out. 100 town-criers call for peace around the world.
FRANCE
• 10.30am: ceremony at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Somme.
• 10.40am: parade at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in Somme.
• 11am: remembrance ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, attended by French president Emmanuel Macron, US president Donald Trump, Russia president Vladimir Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
• 11am: ceremony at Newfoundland Memorial Park, near Beaumont-Hamel, Somme.
BELGIUM
• 10.30am: remembrance ceremony at the municipal cemetery of Mons.
• 11am: Last Post service at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Flanders..
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