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    CENTENARY NEWS INCLUDES COVERAGE OF     US WWI CENTENNIAL EVENTS. Poppies projected onto the Hôtel de Ville in Mons: A scene from the son-et-lumière telling the city's 'first and the last' story of WW1- from the battle of 23 August 1914 to liberation by Canadian troops on Armistice Day, 1918 (Photo: Centenary News) After more than four years of commemorations, the First World War Centenary came to an end on November 11 with international tributes and pleas to work for peace on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice. The Armistice Centenary remembrance service, hosted by Canada, at St Symphorien Military Cemetery, Mons. Originally created by the German military authorities after the first Battle of Mons in August 1914, the tall grey obelisk in the background (right) is a monument to troops of both sides. Opposite is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Cross of Sacrifice (Photo: Centenary News) The first and the last British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in action in the Great War have been remembered in Armistice Centenary ceremonies at the cemetery in Belgium where they lie together. The new memorial to George Price, symbolising a drop of blood, dedicated at Ville-sur-Haine on the eve of the 2018 Armistice Centenary News watches the official opening of the George Price Memorial, near Mons, commemorating the death of the last Commonwealth soldier to die in action in World War 1 before the Armistice took effect. The People's Procession as*embling in The Mall (Photo © DCMS - UK Government) As well as events around Britain, the end of the First World War was marked in London by a National Service of Remembrance and a special procession of 10,000 members of the public past the Cenotaph in Whitehall. The Service of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey: Her Majesty the Queen stands with the German President, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, HRH The Prince of Wales and the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, as wreaths are laid at the grave of the Unknown Warrior (Photo