- Interviews with veterans
- 00:04:30 Harry Read (D-Day)
- 00:05:25 Chris Howe MBE (HMS Coventry, Falklands War)
- 00:06:00 Laura Nicholson (Chinook pilot, Afghanistan, 2013)
- 00:06:30 Harry Read: “A battlefield is not a tidy place. Men die as they fall.”
- 00:14:00 Changes to wreath laying, including
- the first time that wreaths are laid independently by 12 representatives of Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
- joint laying of wreath for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ by Home and Foreign Secretaries
- Ambassador for Nepel on behalf of the Gurkhas
- 00:22:00 Rosemary and former soldier Leslie Day, parents of Channing Day, medic killed in Afghanistan with 40 Commando, RM. “Remembrance Day, to us, is every day. We never stop thinking about her.”
- 00:34:20-00:38:00 Unidentified music
- 00:40:00 Silence
- 00:46:50-01:02:40 Unidentified music
- 00:52:50 “And now, Nigeria, Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Kenya. African troops fought in World War II, 55,000 of them, and 10,000 died. But they’ve not been given proper graves with their names and rank. [Pause] Because … when they died their names were not recorded and no burial places reserved for them.”
- 01:08:40-01:22:40 Unidentified music
- 01:13:00 Three people marching past
- Bob Ankerson: Squadron Leader taken captive for 40 days in Gulf War I. “Life started again. It didn’t go back to how it was, because it can’t, can it?”
- Marzenna Schejbal: Participant in the Warsaw uprising, marching in memory of her father (no known place of burial)
- Nikki Scott, wife of Corporal Lee Scott, killed in Afghanistan in 2009, and founder of Scotty’s Little Soldiers, innovating in support of children who lost parents in war.
- 01:54:30 Reverend Marcia da Costa and Capt Paul Chambers from the British West Indian Regiments Heritage Trust: “it’s important that everyone sees that there were Caribbeans and Africans and Asians and other nations fighting the war as well.”
- 02:05:40 John Sleep, veteran of North Africa, Italy and D-Day, who also attends a lot of German commemorations through “Monument of Tolerance” organisation.
- 02:13:00 Dimbleby reads report of Manchester Guardian on the first two minute silence on November 11, 1919.
Contents
- music by Henry Purcell
- words by Nahum Tate
- words by Isaac Watts, Psalm 90
- music by Edward Elgar
- music by Anonymous
- words by Alison Cockburn, Anonymous, Jean Elliot
- music by Thomas Arne
- words by James Thomson
from Dido and Aeneas
from Enigma Variations
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