Veterans to mark Armistice Day
Three of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War will mark the 90th anniversary of the day peace returned to Europe.
Health permitting, the men - all well into their 100s - will attend a service at the Cenotaph in central London to commemorate Armistice Day.
Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110 and Bill Stone, 108, will lead a two-minute silence as the nation remembers the sacrifices made by the 1914-1918 generation.
They will each represent the armed service they belonged to - for Mr Allingham the Royal Air Force, Mr Patch the Army and Mr Stone the Royal Navy.
This will almost certainly be the last significant anniversary that any of those who fought in the First World War are around to mark.
Dennis Goodwin, chairman of the World War One Veterans' Association, said the three men hoped to play an active role in the ceremony.
"It is most significant that they represent each armed service - the odds on that are tremendous," he said.
"It epitomises the uniqueness of this generation that they saved three of their men to the last.
"For them to get to the 90th anniversary in itself is tremendous, I think. It is a tribute to mankind in a way.
"These men suffered the horrors of a war and they had to then face a life of uncertainty - the Great Depression and the aftermath of the war. "They had little or no help for any of the traumas they suffered and no help from the Government, and they created our generation."
