The allied nations chose this day and time for the commemoration of their war dead.
After the end of World War 2, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day to commemorate all war dead.
Remembrance Day services will feature throughout the area this Friday, with Merrylands RSL Sub-branch secretary Frank Vella hoping to get a good turnout.
“It’s important the community comes out to show it’s support for our brave fallen,” he said.
Services will be held at Merrylands Remembrance Park from 10.30am with lunch to follow at Merrylands RSL Club; Granville Memorial Drive from 11am with lunch to follow at Granville Diggers; and Auburn War Memorial from 9am. Lidcombe RSL hosted its service on Sunday at Remembrance Park, Lidcombe, with lunch following at Dooleys Regents Park Sports Club.
Moment guns fell silent ‘to always be observed’
AT 11am on November 11, 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare in World War 1, known as the Great War.
The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months.
The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war.
This first modern world conflict had brought about the mobilisation of over 70 million people and left between 9 and 13 million dead, perhaps as many as one-third of them with no known grave.