A time to pause and remember

November 11, 2021 BY James Taylor

Torquay RSL president Bob Tyler and vice-president Clive Badelow (at front right) with members Joe Diffin, Anita Gannon, Bob Bracken, James Muller and Daryll Topp gather at the memorial at Point Danger, ahead of today's Remembrance Day service at the same site. Photo: ANDY ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHY

REMEMBRANCE Day will see the nation fall silent at 11am today (Thursday, November 11) in honour of all those Australians who have suffered and died defending our nation, our values and our freedoms.

Services will be held across Australia, including by the Torquay RSL at the memorial at Point Danger from 10.40am.

RSL members who have died during the pandemic will be named and local schoolchildren will lay a wreath for each of them.

This year marks the 103rd anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between Allied forces and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended World War I.

The Victorian Remembrance Day commemoration service will be held at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne from 10.30am, and will be streamed live on the RSL Victoria Facebook page.

The national Remembrance Day commemoration service will be hosted by the Australian War Memorial. This service will take place from 10.45am and be broadcast on ABC, radio, television and online.