{"id":50008,"date":"2014-11-10T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ade514e1590565cc2b133b87c4c82a2a"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:41:00","slug":"news-story-uk-armed-forces-commemorate-remembrance-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50008","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK armed forces commemorate Remembrance Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Remembrance Sunday holds a special significance to all members of the armed forces. Yesterday members of all 3 services paid their respect to the fallen.<\/p>\n<p>This year was especially poignant as it marks 100 years since the start of World War 1, a war from which the remembrance tradition was born.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brigadier Steve McMahon \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/32884\/JIAG-2014-075-2883g.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Brigadier Steve McMahon pays his respects to the fallen at the Freetown King Tom Cemetery in Sierra Leone [Picture: Craig Mowat, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Out in Sierra Leone UK services deployed in the fight against Ebola paused briefly to reflect. These included troops in the capital Freetown and those on board <abbr title=\"Royal Fleet Auxiliary\">RFA<\/abbr> Argus.<\/p>\n<p>In Afghanistan Prince Harry attended the remembrance service at Kandahar Airfield, where some of the few remaining UK troops are now based. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Harry \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/32885\/AUAB_Official_20141109_122_0175g.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Prince Harry lays a wreath on Remembrance Sunday in Kandahar [Picture: Corporal Andrew Morris <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr>, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He laid a personal wreath as a tribute to the 453 men and women who have given their lives in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>There were also services around the UK, including Belfast, Glasgow and Cardiff, and at <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr>, Army and Naval bases.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soldiers from The Royal Regiment of Scotland\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/32886\/HQScot-2014-086-0341g.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Remembrance Sunday parade through Glasgow [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And in central London the Queen, members of the royal family, politicians, service chiefs and representatives of countless other organisations laid wreaths and the Cenotaph on Whitehall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scotland to Sierra Leone, members of the armed forces in UK and around the world came together to remember the fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}