Armistice Day is remembered today 91 years after the end of the First World War.

A special Armistice Day service was held at Westminster Abbey in London this morning (11 November), with the Queen leading the two-minute silence to remember the end of the First World War.

The silence, observed around the UK at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marks the moment four years of war ended with the signing of the Armistice Treaty by Germany and the Allies 1n 1918.

A two-minute silence was also marked by troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and in British military bases around the world.

The Westminster service also marked the passing of the final three servicemen of the First World War generation living in the UK. Bill Stone, 108, Henry Allingham, 113, and Harry Patch, 111, all died this year, leaving former seaman Claude Choules, 108, now living in Australia, as the sole known British survivor.

The monarch laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and Mr Stone’s daughter gave a reading. Actor Jeremy Irons also read Last Post by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, during the service to recognise military and civilian contributions to the conflict.

Gordon Brown was present at the service, along with former prime ministers John Major and Margaret Thatcher; former Labour leader Tony Blair is in the Middle East in his capacity as a special envoy.

The Royal British Legion also held two events in London’s Trafalgar Square and Swansea’s Castle Square; members of the public gathered at Edinburgh’s Garden of Remembrance for the silence, marked by a gun from Edinburgh Castle; while Glasgow’s lord provost led a remembrance service at the George Square war memorial.

Prince Edward also led a congregation at a service of remembrance at the Armed Forces memorial near Lichfield in Staffordshire.