終戦記念日ˇ

一次世界大戰 終戦百年記念
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUV-7Eed68&t=4s

British Museum

 

For #RemembranceDay, here is a red poppy made by Mary Delany in 1779.

The Museum will observe the two-minute silence at 11.00.

Former Museum Keeper Laurence Binyon wrote the words of the ‘Ode of Remembrance’, which are inscribed on our War Memorial:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Ashmolean Museum

Today is Armistice Day, commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the end of the First World War and the armistice signed.

This is Stanley Anderson's 1919 etching of the original wood and plaster Cenotaph at Whitehall, replaced in 1920 with the permanent Portland stone version which remains a focal point for the annual national service of Remembrance.

Also shown are Christopher Nevinson's 'In the Air', Claude Shepperson's 'Casualty Clearing Station in France', and Archibald Standish Hartrick's 'Underground in Wartime'.