Lest We Forget
Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Across The Commons
Fine day but cold and dull. General Haig's diary entry for Armistice Day 1918. (National Library of Scotland)
From Flickr Commons group members’ suggestions and recent uploads, images for Armistice Day/Remembrance Day: November 11, commemorating the Armistice of 1918 ever since.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.
— Lawrence Binyon, “For the Fallen” (1914)
| Soldiers in a trench, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. |  National Library NZ |
| No Mans Land, Flanders Field, France, 1919. |  Library of Congress |
| A surgical operation, 1918. |  Library of Virginia |
| World War I Army Biplane, first published February 1919. |  UA Archives / Upper Arlington History |
| Rudolf Menzel with group of soldiers, 1915. |  Center for Jewish History, NYC |
| The announcing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was the occasion for a monster celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…on Broad Street. |  U.S. National Archives |
| Armistice Day ceremony at the Cenotaph, Sydney, 11 November 1938 / photograph by Sam Hood |  State Library of New South Wales |
| Four mates about to embark for service in Korea.
The description for this image tells who each man is, and who did not return. |
 Australian War Memorial |
| Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a swampy area, 1969. |  U.S. National Archives |