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An Indian Army band play at Delhi War Cemetery in New Delhi on November 9, 2014, during a Remembrance Sunday Ceremony. Queen Elizabeth was on November 9, set to lead Britain in paying silent tribute to the Commonwealth war dead on Remembrance Sunday, a century on from the start of World War I. As Britain and her allies prepare to mark the end of World War I, former colony India will largely ignore commemorations despite losing tens of thousands of soldiers in the conflict. Everyone from world leaders to school children are expected to take part in ceremonies on November 11, to remember the armistice for the Great War, whose centenary this year gives the occasion extra significance. Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914, and more than a million people from what was the British empire died in the four-year conflict. AFP PHOTO/SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)