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Kate Nicholl's great grandfather John Waugh, was killed in action aged 28 in Flanders just two weeks before the Armistice.

"Which makes it seem doubly senseless," she said. He had been shocked and was very traumatized but still had to fight.

As she joined the People's Procession she was also remembering her great grandfather's brother Tommy, who survived the war. By remarkable coincidence Tommy and John put on a field hospital shortly before John would be killed. Even more of a coincidence, their sister was working there as a nurse.

"Tommy had been injured at the Somme. He said, "She said," He said, "He said," He said. "Then he continued to Flanders.

"By 1918, both John and Tommy were serving in Flanders". The meeting at the field was only brief before John was on his way back to the front never to return.

The family were from Nettlesworth in Co Durham, said Nicholls who lives in Ealing, West London. "It was one of countless villages where they would lose a whole generation".

The People's Procession was important, she said. "Because the generation who had first-hand knowledge are dying out, not just those who served but those they told.

"I think it would be a lovely thing to allow descendants to continue to hold true to those memories."

in Paris, around 70 heads of state, prime ministers and foreign dignitaries are gathered with Emmanuel Macron, at the beginning of the armistice commemorations at the Arc de Triomphe.

Russia's Vladimir Putin was at the Arc de Triomphe, shaking hands with Macron and Angela Merkel. Putin then stopped to shake hands with the US President Donald Trump and gave Trump a thumbs up.

In the pouring rain, most heads of state arrived with Macron in coaches driven up the Champs Elysees from the presidential palace. They then walked slowly under the umbrella to the Arc de Triomphe, with Angela Merkel beside Macron.

This image of leaders walking through the rain was described by French commentators.

Some leaders were absent from this slow march, including the US President Donald Trump and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who both arrived at the Arc de Triomphe in their own security detail. Macron is to deliver a speech and then light a flame in the honor of an unknown soldier.

Testimonies written by soldiers on November 11, 1918, as the ceasefire took hold, English and French.

in London, the 10,000 people taking part in the People's Procession are gathering on the Mall to take part in this unique march to the cenotaph to mark the centenary.

Jackie Sheridan is marching for her great uncle Oliver Davies who was killed in Palestine by a stray bullet while taking the horses to water. From Leicester, he was just 21 when he died on 2nd December 1917 and was serving with the Royal Engineers. He was youngest of 13 children.

"He was a driver but I think he was also the groom captains," said Jackie, also from Leicester, who is marching with her husband Steven.

She has the letter, now very fragile, feels her captain on Oliver's death, praising him as a "cheery" lad who was "loved by all" and "one of the best". The captain had erected a cross for him at his grave 15 miles from Jerusalem. On the phone Jackie has a picture of a sketch that was drawn of his grave.

"I've grown up with the story," said Jackie, a leader scout marching in her Scout Leader uniform.

"I shall salute when we get to the Cenotaph"

"It's important to show your respect. We are passionate that the younger generation know and learn that peace is so much more important than war. "

With WW1 veterans passed and WW2 veterans fading, it was important to keep the commemoration going, she said. "I have a grandson who is old enough and I hope it is old enough we will still carry on."