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Sunday, 12 November 2006, 17:21 GMT

In pictures: Remembrance Sunday

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Thousands of spectators and 8,000 ex-servicemen and women merged in Whitehall, London, to pay their respects to those who died in battle.

War veteran

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As Big Ben chimed 11, veterans fell quiet in memory of those that paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting for their country.

Queen laying a poppy wreath

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The Queen led the nation in two minutes' silence in honour of Britain's war dead before laying the first poppy wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph.

Girl carrying a poppy wreath

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It was the first Remembrance Day since members of Shot at Dawn, families of WWI soldiers who were executed for desertion, received pardons from the government.

Tony Blair flanked by David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell

Tony Blair flanked by David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell

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The service of remembrance was attended by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell and Conservative leader David Cameron. They all laid wreaths.

Prince William and the Duchess of Cornwall

Prince William and the Duchess of Cornwall

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Prince William and his stepmother Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, sang from a balcony at the Foreign Office during the service.

War veterans march along Whitehall

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Old soldiers prepared to march past the Cenotaph. More than one million men and women from Britain and the Commonwealth died in WWI and nearly 500,000 in WWII.

War veteran salutes

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Elsewhere in the UK, war veterans reflected on lives lost. In Harold Hill, Essex, an elderly soldier saluted fallen comrades after laying a wreath at the foot of the local memorial.

Schoolgirls lay wreaths Ryton Park school, Worksop, Nottingham

Schoolgirls lay wreaths Ryton Park school, Worksop, Nottingham

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And in Worksop, Nottingham, two schoolgirls from Ryton Park School paid their respects with a poppy wreath.

British troops in Baghdad

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While overseas, British soldiers sang a hymn during a service at the British embassy compound in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.

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