Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What do people eat on Armistice Day? ›

As the day is a holiday off from school and work for many, the people of France often spend it with family. Common foods consumed on Armistice Day include pastries like crepes, éclairs, crème brulee, cream puffs and macarons.

The phrase is used to warn people not to forget those who have lost their lives at war, while we live through times of relative peace. You may see it written on poppy pin badges and other remembrance-related items. It is also inscribed on some soldiers' graves and war memorials.

Today, as we should every day, we remember those who volunteered, sacrificed, served, fought, and died, for our freedom. We thank you, and we salute you as we salute those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. We will never forget. We will remember you.

Armistice Day has been observed every year since 1919 with a two-minute silence. Held each year at 11am on 11 November, the silence coincides with the time in 1918 at which the First World War came to an end and is observed at war memorials and in public places throughout the UK and Commonwealth.

Rationed Foods. The categories of rationed foods during the war were sugar, coffee, processed foods (canned, frozen, etc.), meats and canned fish, and cheese, canned milk, and fats.

By the First World War (1914-18), Army food was basic, but filling. Each soldier could expect around 4,000 calories a day, with tinned rations and hard biscuits staples once again. But their diet also included vegetables, bread and jam, and boiled plum puddings.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! 'Lest' comes from the Old English 'thӯ lǣs the' , which translates to 'whereby less that'. Kipling drew inspiration from a biblical phrase in Deuteronomy 6:12, where 'lest' took the meaning 'for fear that'.

'spasms of paper red' The poet creates a semantic field of suffering through the use of colour imagery and movement: spasms has connotations of being wounded. This could refer to the mother, the son or both. This concept is also used in stanza two.

'treasure chest' relates back to childhood and suggests a future full of possibility and riches 'I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage': metaphor for the mother releasing the memory of her child. She has let something go that brought her joy.

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” “If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember.

What is the slogan for Remembrance Sunday? ›

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them. The Last Post is sounded. (A Piper Lament may be included in Scotland.)

Day Dress / Lounge Suit. Full size decorations may be worn if desired.

At 5am on 11 November 1918 in a railway carriage in France, representatives of France, Britain and Germany all signed a document that would put an end to four years of conflict. Six hours later – at 11am – those signatures would bring into effect the Armistice that ended WWI.

The phrase actually originates from the poem 'Recessional' by Rudyard Kipling, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It only become adopted in its current use around a decade after the end of the First World War.

After World War II, the holiday was recognized as a day of tribute to veterans of both wars. Beginning in 1954, the United States designated November 11 as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. British Commonwealth countries now call the holiday Remembrance Day.

21st century. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, Armistice Day is observed with a two minute silence on the eleventh hour, with the main service taking place on Remembrance Sunday (also known as Remembrance Day). Both days are commemorated formally but are not public holidays.

Commemoration practices involved both celebration and somber remembrance with ceremonies often including parades, speeches and a moment of silence.

In 1922, Armistice Day was made a statutory holiday in France. To honour the fallen at 11 a.m. on November 11, every French city has a military gun salute, and wreathes are placed at WW I memorial statues, or graves. Also, there is a bugle call "for the dead".

The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918. Armistice is Latin for to stand (still) arms. To this day we mark Armistice Day around the United Kingdom with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.