IT is a century since Britain joined the conflict dubbed a ‘war to end all wars’.

If those who paid the ultimate price in that war could have known how many people would turn out to honour their memory 100 years later, it might have given them some solace.

So far, society has been unable to pay those men the tribute they might most have wanted, by putting an end to war and violence.

But when we look at the young people who stand so proudly alongside elderly veterans at Remembrance events, we can at least hope they might live to see those things consigned to history.