Editing Armistice Day (section)

== History in Allied countries ==
The first Armistice Day celebration was held at [[Buckingham Palace]], commencing with King [[George V]] hosting a "Banquet in Honour of the President of the [[French Third Republic|French Republic]]" ([[Raymond Poincaré]])<ref>{{Royal Collection|1000799|Banquet in honour of The President of the French Republic, Monday 10 November 1919}}</ref> during the evening hours of 10 November 1919. The first official Armistice Day events were subsequently held in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on the morning of 11 November 1919,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armistice-day-remembrance-day-and-veterans-day-whats-the-difference-a6730081.html|title=Armistice Day, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day – what's the difference?|first=Samuel|last=Osborne|date=11 November 2015|access-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118032603/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armistice-day-remembrance-day-and-veterans-day-whats-the-difference-a6730081.html|archive-date=18 November 2018 |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> which included a [[two-minute silence]] as a mark of respect for those who died in the war and those left behind.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/7-november/features/features/the-great-silence-begins|title=The great silence begins|first=Peter|last=Street|date=7 November 2014|access-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117033727/https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/7-november/features/features/the-great-silence-begins|archive-date=17 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Similar ceremonies developed in other countries during the [[inter-war period]].
In South Africa, for example, the [[Memorable Order of Tin Hats]] had by the late 1920s developed a ceremony whereby the toast of "Fallen Comrades" was observed not only in silence but darkness, all except for the "Light of Remembrance", with the ceremony ending with the Order's anthem "Old Soldiers Never Die".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://muhaz.org/revielle-shellhole.html|title=Reveille Shellhole|pages=1–4|access-date=20 November 2018|archive-date=20 November 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120035547/http://muhaz.org/revielle-shellhole.html}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Some sources report (all in identical words) that the [[South Australia]]n State Branch of the [[Returned and Services League of Australia|Returned Sailors & Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia]] developed a simple ceremony of silence for departed comrades at 9&nbsp;p.m., but there is no reliable source confirming that this happened on Armistice Day. The Club Palm Beach (formerly Palm Beach RSL) reports that a silence was observed in Adelaide in 1916 to mark the landing at Gallipoli.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clubpalmbeach.com.au/club-history/|title=ANZAC Day history|access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>|group=Note}}

In Britain, beginning in 1939, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest to 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cecil |first=Hugh |date=1998 |title=At the Eleventh Hour |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-CXAwAAQBAJ |publisher=Pen & Sword Books Ltd |pages=357–358|isbn=978-0850526448 }}</ref> This became [[Remembrance Sunday]].

Commemorations of November 11 were initially focused on honoring the military dead of the First World War and the return to peace. Just prior to or after World War II, many countries changed the name of the holiday, several changed the focus to include all veterans of their armed services, and a few honor their war dead both uniformed and civilian. Most member states of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] followed the earlier example of Canada and adopted the name [[Remembrance Day]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armistice-day-remembrance-day-and-veterans-day-whats-the-difference-a6730081.html|title=Armistice Day, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day – what's the difference?|first=Samuel|last=Osborne|date=11 November 2015|access-date=18 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118032603/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armistice-day-remembrance-day-and-veterans-day-whats-the-difference-a6730081.html|archive-date=18 November 2018 |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> The United States in 1954 changed the name to [[Veterans Day|All Veterans Day]], later shortened to 'Veterans Day'.<!-- Source for "All Veterans Day"? --><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp |title=History of Veterans Day |date=20 July 2015 |website=U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref>