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<p>Millions of Britons have fallen silent to honour the war dead on the anniversary of Armistice Day.<br />Prime Minister David Cameron laid a wreath in South Korea, while ministers and royals attended various ceremonies in the UK.<br />As the clock struck 11am, people around the country wore their poppies with pride to take part in a two minute silence to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, when peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War.<br />The agreement between Germany and the Allies after four years of fighting took effect at the &#8220;eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month&#8221; of 1918.<br />But an incident in London marred the solemn moment, when a small group of protesters styling themselves Muslims Against Crusades burned a model of a poppy. Relatives of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan condemned the action, which took place in Exhibition Road, Kensington, as &#8220;atrocious&#8221;.<br />Elsewhere, the usually raucous House of Commons also fell silent as MPs marked the occasion.<br />Mr Cameron placed a wreath at the site of the British Army&#8217;s bloodiest battle since the end of the Second World War &#8211; the Battle of the Imjin River from April 22 to 25 1951 during the Korean War. The Prime Minister &#8211; who was in South Korea for a summit of the G20 group of major economies &#8211; also took part in a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Korean National War Memorial in Seoul.<br />Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams joined war heroes, veterans, military associations and schoolchildren for a service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, central London.<br />Crowds braved damp and windy conditions to line the street for the poignant service and wreath-laying ceremony organised by the Western Front Association, applauding Victoria and George Cross holders as they took their places around the monument. A bugler from the Scots Guards sounded the Last Post to mark the start of the silence, during which the chimes of Big Ben could be heard, ahead of the wreath-laying.<br />Wearing a beret and the medals of his great-great-uncle who lost his life in the Second World War, seven-year-old Jonny Osborne, from New Southgate, north London, placed a cross with poppies at the monument which read: &#8220;Thank you, not forgetting.&#8221;</p>
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