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As London stands silent on Sunday at the 11th hour for the remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph, 2 men will be shouting as loud as they can.

Every year, the 2-minute’s silence for the remembrance service on Whitehall is conducted with military precision. On Horse Guards Parade, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire their First World War guns to mark the start of the silence, and on Whitehall a Corps of Army Music bugler from the Household Division marks its end at precisely the same time that the guns fire again, 120 seconds later.

But how do they know when to do it? Neither can see the Big Ben clock from where they stand, and to react to the first strike of the Big Ben bell as it chimes the 11th hour would be a moment too late.

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