Our photographer NEIL CROSS was there to record the solemn and socially distanced event in the city centre.
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With the Queen watching from a government building, the Prince of Wales laid her wreath acknowledging the debt owed to all those who fought in past conflicts and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
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Covid-19 and the national lockdown across England aimed at suppressing the virus has meant Whitehall in central London was sparsely filled, with the public advised not to attend, adding to the sombre mood
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Across the country, the attendance at local war memorials was scaled back, with the Royal British Legion advising the public to commemorate remotely by displaying a poppy in their window or observing the silence on their doorstep.
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In the past, many servicemen and women would have lined up around the Preston War Memorial