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Remembrance Day background and commemoration

 

  Tradition and background

Remembrance Day (Australian War Memorial)
 Includes links to photographs of the 2009 Remembrance Day ceremony and transcripts of speeches.
- The Remembrance Day ceremony
- Tradition: Why Remembrance Day is special to Australians.
- Original documents: Cablegram on the signing of the Armistice with Germany, wireless signal on the 1918 ceasefire, map, United Returned Soldiers' Fund memorial card.

 Remembrance Day (Department of Veterans' Affairs)
- History of Remembrance Day
- The 11am observation of silence
- The unknown Australian soldier
- Australian ceremonies in 2009

Remembrance Day (National RSL)

Remembrance Day (RSLWAHQ)

Remembrance Day (australia.gov.au, previously at culture.gov.au)

Remembrance Day Tradition (Department of Defence)

Remembrance Day (Australian Navy)

Remembrance Day (Australian Air Force)

Remembrance Day (Wikipedia)

November 11 (Wikipedia)

Remembrance Day 2008—the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I (Parliament of Australia: Parliamentary Library)
(Note that many links are not accessible as this material was produced for users of the Parliamentary Library.)
  The use of poppies and rosemary

Poppy Time (poppytime.com)
 Includes links to sites on using the poppy for remembrance in several countries.

 The Poppy (diggerhistory.info - if the link is not working, see Where is Digger History?)
- The Poppy of Remembrance: A History
- The Anzac Day Difference
- The Poppy from the New Zealand perspective

The significance of poppies (Department of Veterans' Affairs)

The history of the Red Poppy (Royal Australian Air Force)

 The red poppy (RSLWAHQ)

Why we wear a red poppy on Remembrance Day (RSLWAHQ)

 The significance of rosemary (Department of Veterans' Affairs)

 
  Photos and posters One of the Remembrance Day posters downloadable from the DVA websiteRemembrance Day posters (DVA)

Posters for Veterans Day and Remembrance Day (poppytime.com)

Remembrance Day (Australian War Memorial)
Includes photographs taken in 1918 as well as link to Flickr photograph collection.

Remembrance Day Photos 2009 (ABC)
 
  Remembrance Day ceremonies

 
See our:

● Remembrance Day ceremonies and speeches page

● Music for Remembrance Day ceremonies page

 

 
  Videos, audio Behind the News: Remembrance Day 2009 (ABC)

Armistice Day, 1918 (National film and Sound Archive)

Australia's War heroes: Can you hear Australia's heroes marching?

 
  Lesson material for Remembrance Day

 
See our:

● Remembrance Day lesson materials page

and our Anzac Kids site for interactive activities for students

and our Anzac Day Websites lesson activities, including
- Colour-in activities
- Craft activities and 
- ICT activities (classroom exercise using Word to make a poppy wreath)
  News stories Australia remembers WWI (sbs.com.au)
"At 11am on November 11 1918, fighting ceased on the Western Front, which brought to an end four years of bloodshed..."

 
    See also our:

● Remembrance Day ceremonies and speeches

● Music for Remembrance Day ceremonies

● Lesson material

● Remembrance Day crosswords

● Anzac Day Websites
 

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