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Service marks lost WWI generation

Westminster Abbey has held a special Armistice Day service following the deaths this year of the three remaining World War I veterans living in the UK.

The Queen led the country in observing a two-minute silence at 1100 GMT for the "passing of a generation".

Bill Stone died at 108 in January followed by Henry Allingham, 113, and Harry Patch, 111, in July.

Nicholas Witchell reports.

Service marks lost WWI generation

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