England's rugby team paid their respects to the fallen at Twickenham on Saturday Services of remembrance will be held across the UK later in honour of those who have died in wars and conflicts during the past century.
Commemorations have been given added significance by another year of heavy UK military losses in Afghanistan.
This year also marks the 90th anniversary of both the Cenotaph and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, who was interred in Westminster Abbey.
The British Legion says it has sold a record 46 million poppies.
It has made the theme of this year's Poppy Appeal the "Afghan generation" of the armed forces and their families.
A British Legion spokesman said demand for poppies had been so great that it had had to dip into next year's supply.
The Queen will lead the nation in commemorating the sacrifices made by Britain's armed forces at the main Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London's Whitehall.
She will be joined by other members of the Royal Family, Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband, who will all lay wreaths.
Thousands of ex-servicemen and women are expected to take part in a march past the Cenotaph.
Photographs adorn on Remembrance Crosses at Westminster Abbey On Saturday night the Queen joined an audience of veterans and families of some of the UK's fallen at the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.
Elsewhere, a ceremony will be held at the Stone of Remembrance on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, which will include a march by ex-service and civilian organisations.
HMS Ark Royal crew members will lead a parade as part of Glasgow's ceremony in George Square, while a service will be held in Glasgow Cathedral.
There will also be a series of ceremonies in Coventry to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a German bombing raid in World War II that devastated the city.
The ruined old cathedral, which was wrecked during the blitz, and its modern replacement, which was built next to it, will be the focus of the services.
Air raid sirens will be sounded at the beginning and end of a two-minute silence that will mark the moment when the raid began.
Operation Moonlight Sonata was launched against Coventry in 1940 because it was a major centre for the manufacture of aircraft, tanks and munitions.
The city had already been hit in the weeks before 14 November but that night nearly 500 bombers filled the skies.
Sirens began to sound just after 1900 GMT and within an hour, incendiary devices had set the city alight.
The raid continued until dawn, by which time thousands of bombs had been dropped and hundreds of civilians killed.
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