SOCIALLY distanced commemorations have been held across the UK, as the nation honoured its war dead on Armistice Day.

A two-minute silence was observed at 11am to mark the ending of the First World War on November 11 1918.

Services of remembrance are usually held at churches, war memorials and cenotaphs, but under coronavirus restrictions numbers were limited with those attending asked to socially distance.

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Armistice Day 2020

Eric Howden BEM, 76, chairman of the Redcar British Legion who served with the Royal Ordnance Corps, in front of a commemorative war mural in Redcar (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Ex RAF serviceman Tom Blundell wears a Union flag face mask at the war memorial in Royal Wootton Bassett (Ben Birchall/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Soldiers helping with the mass Covid testing in Merseyside stand in tribute at the Arena Convention Centre in Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Dr Max Gamon, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, is pushed in his wheelchair to the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London (Yui Mok/PA)
Armistice Day 2020The Earl and Countess of Wessex lay wreaths during a service at the Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Lichfield (Darren Staples/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Members of the public and veterans pay their respect at the War Memorial Tribute Garden in Edinburgh (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Armistice Day 2020The Angel of the North in Gateshead was given a poppy (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Military personnel carry poppy wreaths at Paddington Station in London, for Poppies to Paddington which transported wreaths from around the UK into the station (Victoria Jones/PA)
Armistice Day 2020One of 200 silhouettes of soldiers at Blenheim Palace Gardens in Woodstock (Steve Parsons/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Members of the armed services pay their respects at the Cenotaph on Whitehall (Yui Mok/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Lance Sergeant Stuart Laing, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, plays the Last Post on a bugle found next to the body of a Welsh Guard who fought during the Battle of the Somme in 1915 (Yui Mok/PA)
Armistice Day 2020Firefighters parade opposite the war memorial in Royal Wootton Bassett (Ben Birchall/PA)
Armistice Day 2020People observe a two-minute silence at King’s Cross station, London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Armistice Day 2020The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall leave Westminster Abbey after the Armistice Day service (Aaron Chown/PA)
Armistice Day 2020People stand amongst two hundred silhouettes of soldiers, created by Witney-based artist Dan Barton, at Blenheim Palace Gardens in Woodstock, Oxfordshire (Steve Parsons/PA)
Armistice Day 2020The Revd Maggie McLean, York Minster’s Canon Missioner, at the Yorkshire cathedral (Danny Lawson/PA)
Armistice Day 2020The Tommy statue, officially named 1101, on Terrace Green by the seafront in Seaham, County Durham (Owen Humphreys/PA)