Remembrance Sunday captured in poignant images as nation remembers

Wales has paid tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice on Remembrance Day. Services have been held up and down the country, as crowds have gathered to pay their respects to servicemen and women who lost their lives in conflict. In Cardiff, the national remembrance service was held at Alexandra Gardens at Cathays Park, Cardiff, attended by First Minister, Eluned Morgan, who laid a wreath. In Swansea, a gathering was held at the Cenotaph on Sunday morning, and In Newport, crowds came together for a service at Clarence Place. Meanwhile, in London, King Charles, The Princess of Wales, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and former prime ministers were all pictured in attendance at the service. As Parliament's Big Ben bell tolled 11am, thousands of military personnel, veterans and members of the public gathered in central London as the nation fell still for two minutes of silence, broken by a single artillery blast and Royal Marines buglers sounding "The Last Post." The 76-year-old king, dressed in the uniform of an army field marshal, laid a wreath of red paper poppies on a black background at the base of the Cenotaph war memorial. Erected over a century ago to honour the British and allied troops killed in World War I, it has become the focus of annual ceremonies for members of military and civilian services killed in that war and subsequent conflicts. The national ceremony of remembrance is held every year on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11, 1918, at 11 am.