Queen Elizabeth II and Royal family lay wreaths at the Cenotaph , the war memorial near Westminster in London . That was then followed by the news that another soldier from 4th Battalion , The Rifles , died from injuries sustained in an explosion that happened in the same region near Sangin . Britain honors its war dead each year on the Sunday closest to November 1 , the day 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 announcement that a U.S. soldier and another British soldier died in separate incidents .
Queen Elizabeth II and Royal family lay wreaths at the Cenotaph , the war memorial near Westminster in London . Britain honors its war dead each year on the Sunday closest to November 1 , the day 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 announcement that a U.S. soldier and another British soldier died in separate incidents .