Remembrance Day

• Introduction
• Getting there
• Tradition
• Ceremony
• Documents

Remembrance Day (11 November) marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). Each year Australians observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts.

• Pictures of the 2009 Remembrance Day ceremony on our Flickr page
• National Remembrance Day Ceremony, 2009 program
• Roll of Honour
• Bugle call of the Last Post
• The Rouse

Speeches

• Text of Professor Kim Beazley's Anniversary Oration delivered on 11 November 2009
• Text of General Peter Cosgrove's commemorative address on Remembrance Day 2009
• Transcript and recording of Prime Minister Paul Keating's speech on Remembrance Day in 1993 at the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier