In pictures: Armistice Day

Images from around the UK as Britain observes two minutes' silence for her war dead on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Matthew Fletcher, 13, from County Upper School, Bury St Edmunds, plays the Last Post

Blue Watch observe two minutes' silence at Birmingham's central fire station

Remembering lost comrades at the War Memorial at the Remembrance Day Ceremony in York

Edinburgh Castle's gunner, Staff Sgt Tom McKay, fires a gun to mark the start of the silence

Four year olds Jonah Rzeskiewicz and Lauren Smythe pray for peace at St Vincents R.C Infant school at Altrincham, Cheshire

Sara Jones unveils a memorial for her late husband, Falklands hero Lieut Colonel H Jones VC, in Kingswear, Dartmouth

Sounding the Last Post in York, David Burgess who has played the bugle for the last 38 years