TWO minutes' silence today, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marking Armistice Day when the guns fell silent 80 years ago on the Western Front.
At Landican Cemetery there will be a particularly poignant moment when a piper and drummer from the Royal Liverpool Scottish will play in the coffin of WWI veteran Harold Anderson, who has just died aged 102 years.
Mr Anderson, who died peacefully at the Anchorage old people's home, Hoylake, was about to be presented with France's highest award for gallantry, the Legion d'Honneur, by the French Government, along with the few other survivors who fought in France between 1914 and 1918.
Harold was shipped out to France as a fresh-faced volunteer in November 1914. He was one of the lucky ones to survive the carnage. He later married WWI sweetheart, Winifred, and they established Anderson's bakery in St Paul's Road, Seacombe, Wallasey.
His funeral is being held at 11.30am. at Landican today, following the two minutes' silence. At 11am friends and family will stand in silence in memory of Private Anderson of the Liverpool Scottish at the exact moment the guns fell silent on the Western Front. Harold's Legion d'Honneur will be awarded posthumously on December 14.
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