used as a symbol of remembrance]] Remembrance Day or Armistice Day is a day of commemoration observed in the Commonwealth of Nations and various European countries (including France and Belgium) to commemorate World War I and other wars.

It is observed on November 11 to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.

Remembrance Day is specifically dedicated to members of the armed forces who were killed during war.

Common British, Canadian and ANZAC traditions include two minutes' silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month (the time that the armistice became effective), and wearing artificial poppies sold to raise funds for veterans' groups (the Earl Haig Fund in Britain or the Royal Canadian Legion in Canada). The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare.

In Britain, although two minutes' silence is often observed on 11th November itself, the main observance is on the Sunday nearest 11 November, Remembrance Sunday, when ceremonies are held at local communities' War Memorials, usually organized by local branches of the Royal British Legion – an association for ex-serviceman. Typically poppy wreaths are laid. A minute's or two minutes' silence is also frequently incorporated into church services on that day.