Britain's war dead honoured on Remembrance Sunday

The Queen arrives with other members of the royal family at the Cenotaph for the remembrance service Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

The Queen lays a wreath at the Cenotaph to honour Britain’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

(From l) the Duke of Kent, Prince Edward, Prince William, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew give a salute at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Prince William lays a wreath at the Cenotaph Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Gordon Brown arrives with a wreath at the Cenotaph, flanked by other party leaders Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Harry Patch, 110, the last remaining British Tommy and veteran of the first world war, cries as he attends the Remembrance Day service at St Cuthbert's church in Wells Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, with former the former PM Margaret Thatcher in the background, during the ceremony at the Cenotaph Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Six-year-old Alfie Amos gives a salute from the crowd while sitting on his dad's shoulders near the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday in London Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Maltese soldiers observe a Remembrance Day memorial service in Floriana, on the outskirts of Valletta Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

A wreath laid during a Remembrance Day parade in Basra, Iraq, as the 90th anniversary of the armistice of the first world war was marked Photograph: Aaron Thacker/Press Association

A British solder pays his respects during a Remembrance Day parade in Basra Photograph: Cpl Rob Knight/Press Association

A British soldier holds a poppy at Kandahar air field, southern Afghanistan, where UK personnel marked Remembrance Sunday Photograph: Daniel Deme/PA

Gurkhas parade during the ceremony at the Cenotaph Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Derek Webb, who was a bugler in the Royal Green Jackets, plays the Last Post for his great uncle, Albert Webb, who has his name engraved among the 11,953 Commonwealth soldiers at Tyne Cot cemetery near Ypres, Belgium Photograph: Press Association

War veterans gather in Whitehall for the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph Photograph: Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters

A chorister attends the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph Photograph: Reuters