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            A soldier of the Royal Yeomanry is one of the four guards of honour at the Arch of Remembrance in Leicester on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War (First World War) on 11th November 1918. 

In 2018, by chance, Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday which falls closest to 11th November, actually fell on that date.

The Arch of Remembrance in Victoria Park, Leicester, is the grandest of Sir Edwin Lutyens war memorials in Britain and the most imposing municipal war memorial in the land. It was completed in 1925. It commemorates the 12,000 men of the county who fell in the war.

The forerunner of the University of Leicester was founded in 1918 as a memorial to the dead of the war, on land which housed the 5th Northern General Hospital, a large military hospital. This occupied a site beside Victoria Park including the former County Lunatic Asylum, which now forms part of the university.

To commemorate the anniversary, a wreath was laid by Sir David Attenborough and his nephew Michael. Sir David’s father was the first Principal of the new University College. Sir David and his brother, the late Lord Attenborough, attended Wyggeston Boys School, which also occupied part of the site of the former military hospital.

Taken on: November 11, 2018

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