Wakefield pays silent tribute to the fallen on Armistice Day
Hundreds of people in Wakefield gathered to pay their respects and mark the 109th anniversary of the end of World War One today.
The Dean of Wakefield Cathedral, The Very Revd Canon Dr Philip Hobday, hosted a special service at the Wakefield War Memorial this morning (November 11).
The city fell silent at 11am to commemorate the exact time an agreement was made to end the fighting of World War One in 1918.
The Mayor of Wakefield, Coun Brian Moorhouse also delivered a speech and laid a wreath at the Memorial.
He said: “Guests, ladies and gentlemen, on Sunday we all gathered here to remember the fallen of the various confilicts of the past.
"Today we are here to commemorate the start of the peace at the end of the First World War.”