Nagaland: British Dy High Comm visits Kohima War Cemetery.

GUWAHATI: British Deputy High Commissioner Nick Lowe on Friday made his maiden visit to the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Kohima to lay a wreath in memory of all the martyred brave soldiers on the occasion of Remembrance Day. He paid homage to the soldiers on November 11 at 11:11 (11.11.11).
During his visit, Lowe said, “Sometimes you get an opportunity to do something that you will remember for the rest of your life. Laying a wreath at the Kohima War Cemetery at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is such a moment and a huge one.” It is an honor.
“I do this in honor of all those who fell here and for the veterans who had hoped to be in Kohima for the 75th anniversary of the war but were prevented by the pandemic,” he added. ”

On Thursday, Lowe visited Mary Help of Christians Cathedral in Kohima.

“A place of amazing beauty that will live on in my memory. Thanks to Father Wimedu Kizo for welcoming me and to Bishop James Thopal for the traditional Naga shawl,” he tweeted.
In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of bitter fighting, the Great War was finally over. On November 11, 1918, the Armistice was signed at 5:00 a.m. on a train in the forest of Compignac, France. Six hours later, at 11:00, the battle was over.

The first Remembrance Day was observed in 1919 in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolize the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember the dead.
In a letter published in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919, Edward George Honey, an Australian journalist, proposed a moment of silence to commemorate those who gave their lives in the First World War. This was brought to the attention of King George V and on 7 November 1919 the King issued a proclamation observing two minutes’ silence.

“All movement must cease, so that in perfect silence, everyone’s thoughts may be focused on the venerable memory of the glorious dead.”
After the end of World War II in 1945, Armistice Day became a day of remembrance to include all those who fell in the two world wars and other conflicts.

Since 1919, the second Sunday in November, otherwise known as Remembrance Sunday, has also marked a two-minute silence at 11 a.m. at war memorials, memorials, religious services and various public places in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.