UK - Military - Markers of fallen soldiers during Remembrance weekend

From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during the Iraqi conflicts from 2001 to present day. Dedications from loved-ones or well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses whose surfaces bear the names and pictures of smiling young men and women, proud to serve their country. On the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers are laid out on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.

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From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during the Iraqi conflicts from 2001 to present day. Dedications from loved-ones or well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses whose surfaces bear the names and pictures of smiling young men and women, proud to serve their country. On the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers are laid out on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.