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Relatives and friends planted tiny wooden crosses at the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.

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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh each laid a cross to open the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.

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An estimated 45 million British people observed a two-minute silence at 1100 GMT.

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Visitors to the Black Watch memorial at Aberfeldy, near Perth, observed a two-minute silence at 1100 GMT.

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Staff and passengers at York railway station observed a two-minute silence at 1100 GMT.

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Elizabeth Phillips, nine, from St John's School, stood silent during a ceremony at which children from four primary schools laid crosses of remembrance at the foot of each grave in the Fields of Honour Cemetery, Ipswich.

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A Britannia School pupil held a cross of remembrance during a ceremony at the Fields of Honour Cemetery, Ipswich.

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Raqual Harper-Titchener, Angel and Matheson, the wife, son and daughter of Royal Military Police officer Maj Matthew Titchener, killed in Iraq, attended a ceremony to unveil his name on the war memorial in his home town of Southport, Merseyside.

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Artillery Regiment veteran Arthur Wragg, 83, walked from York's Remembrance Day ceremony.

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A startled fox ran in circles around the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.

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The Thames river will be lit up in red every night until Sunday when the Queen, accompanied by about 9,000 veterans, will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.

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British Army Col Tim Allen, commanding officer, National Liaison Headquarters (right), and Col Ronald J Johnson, commanding officer of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, laid a wreath in Iraq.