AN AFTERSCHOOL group for kids took its youngsters to pay their respects to the fallen ahead of Armistice Day last weekend.

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Anne Evans said: "Keep Christmas stuff until after Armistice Day."

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Armistice Day poster from the US Department of Labor, 1919.

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Here, we take a look back at some pictures from Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day services and parades in Ceredigion, north Pembrokeshire and north Carmarthenshire over the last 10 years.

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However, Saturday’s march coincides with Armistice Day, when people across the UK mark the moment the guns fell silent in the First World War.

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In Britain, calls to sack UK home secretary Suella Braverman feature alongside the fallout from protests on Armistice Day.

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Initially commemorated as Armistice Day but renamed Veterans Day in the United States in 1954, the holiday is a federal holiday throughout the country.

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Juniper House Care Home in Brackley commemorated the signing of the Armistice Day agreement on the day that the guns finally fell silent.

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Rishi Sunak is facing intensifying calls to sack Suella Braverman for stoking tensions ahead of Armistice Day protests, with Sir Keir Starmer accusing the Home Secretary of spawning “hatred and distrust”.

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Still Armistice Day largely stuck to the primary purpose of the occasion — to remember and pay respect to those who died for their country.

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