The ‘Great War’, the war to end all wars, still has a special place in British memory over eighty years after its end. Ceremonies to commemorate the Armistice initially took place on its anniversary, the eleventh day of the eleventh month at eleven o'clock in the morning and involved ‘a complete suspension of all … activities’. Later, after the Second World War, they were moved for convenience to the second Sunday of the month. This was logical, after all. It would be less of a disruption to daily life if remembrance services could replace the standard Sunday religious ceremonies instead of bringing work to a halt in the middle of the week. But by the end of the century there was a movement to bring remembrance back to the eleventh hour of the eleventh day. At first just a few people kept silence at the appointed hour and in some places gun salutes were fired. By the last year of the twentieth century, some shops and workplaces were marking the original anniversary, while official ceremonies ran in parallel on the nearest Sunday. The campaign to return to Armistice Day proper was begun by the Royal British Legion in 1995. On the eightieth anniversary in 1998 they estimated that forty-three million people in Britain had observed the two-minute silence on 11 November.