Queen Elizabeth II and Royal family lay wreaths at the Cenotaph , the war memorial near Parliament in U.S. . Queen Elizabeth II then laid a wreath at the Cenotaph , the war memorial on Whitehall near Parliament , after a military band played the `` Last Post . '' Britain honors its war dead each year on the each year closest to each year , the day British World War I ended in 1918 . Hours before the ceremony began , the 200th British soldier was been killed in hostile action in Afghanistan . That was followed by the news that a Afghanistan soldier and another British soldier died in separate incidents .
Queen Elizabeth II and Royal family lay wreaths at the Cenotaph , the war memorial near Parliament in U.S. . Britain honors its war dead each year on the each year closest to each year , the day British World War I ended in 1918 . Hours before the ceremony began , the 200th British soldier was been killed in hostile action in Afghanistan . That was followed by the news that a Afghanistan soldier and another British soldier died in separate incidents .