Remembrance Day 2018: When is the two minute silence today in the UK?

Hatty Collier11 November 2018

The UK will fall silent on Remembrance Sunday as the nation marks 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Each year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a two minute silence is observed across the UK to remember Armistice Day.

But this Sunday also marks the centenary of the end of the First World War and special events have been taking place across the country all week.

The two minute silence at 11am on November 11 is to mark when the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany that brought the end of WWI in 1918.

What was the Armistice?

The National Service of Remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph on Whitehall in central London and the two minute silence will be marked by the firing of guns from the King’s Troop on Horse Guards Parade.

Big Ben will also sound despite the clock tower being covered in scaffolding for conservation works.

The 13.7 tonne bell, which hangs in the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster, will sound 11 times at 11am at the beginning of the traditional two minutes of silence.

A bespoke electric mechanism has been built to power the 200kg striking hammer in order to ensure the Great Bell can mark Remembrance Sunday.