Image of the Day: 9 November 2009

The British Armed Forces community across the world honoured their fallen colleagues on Remembrance Sunday yesterday, 8 November 2009. At Camp Bastion (pictured), the main UK base in Helmand province, around 2,000 British servicemen and women gathered with personnel from other nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force to join in prayer, lay wreaths and remember fellow soldiers killed serving their country. Around 500 British personnel from 11 Light Brigade also gathered at Task Force Helmand's Headquarters in Lashkar Gah where a piper played the lament and a Remembrance Parade took place. Click here to read more. [Picture: Corporal Steve Bain RAF, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]