Australians have paused to mark 106 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the first World War. The National Remembrance Day service in Canberra was one of many commemorations around the country. The Prime Minister attended the ceremony at the Australian War Memorial alongside the Governor-General Sam Mostyn, who delivered the commemorative address.
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00:00The guns fell silent on this day over a century ago. Today, the nation fell silent at the
00:08eleventh hour. On the first Remembrance Day in 1919, the war to end all wars was being
00:19marked, the Governor-General acknowledging that day.
00:22For them, the loss of war was a present sorrow. Grieving the dead, offering prayers for the
00:29missing, tending to the wounded in body and spirit.
00:35And all the Remembrance Days, the conflicts and the service since.
00:39The Australian Defence Force is a modern force, upholding the greatest of Australian values,
00:45continuing the legacy of the service of generations past and demonstrating the very best of our
00:52nation.
00:53At first light, Sydney's most famous icon was illuminated with the symbol of Remembrance.
00:58That service remembering those who fought and died at dawn.
01:01We are the dead. Short days ago, we lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow. Loved and were
01:09loved. And now we lie in Flanders Fields.
01:12As the pipes echoed through the ceremony in Brisbane's Anzac Square, the echo of the First
01:17World War was still being heard by families present.
01:22We had five of our uncles, great-uncles and great-grandfathers who served. Two that we
01:29know of that died on the Western Front. Both are unknown. We don't know where their graves
01:34are.
01:34Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance marked Remembrance Day and its own 90th anniversary. People first
01:40gathering here on November 11, 1934.
01:44So to be here at the Shrine on Remembrance Day obviously anchors us to what it means
01:49to remember service and sacrifice.
01:51From the country, a day to remember.