The battle is over

Throughout the United Kingdom, the sound of over 2,000 bagpipes will fill the air before dawn has broken on 11th November 2018. In cities and towns throughout the land, individual pipers will play "Battle’s O’er” - a traditional air played by pipers after a battle. Heralding the start of the day’s commemorations, they will play the haunting tune outside churches and cathedrals, in market squares and muddy fields, on hilltops and high streets, in valleys and village greens throughout the country, and at scores of locations overseas, including Australia.

A lone piper will play "Battle’s O’er" alongside the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey, London, with others undertaking a similar performance at 6am local times at individual locations all over the world, starting in New Zealand. In Australia that is at 5pm on the 11th. They will mark the exact time the Armistice was signed.
Hundreds of pipers - massed bands and solo pipers - across Australia are preparing for their role in the international commemoration. Special massed bands will assemble at the Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne, Adelaide War Memorial, King’s Park Perth and on Macquarie Wharf Hobart while bands and solo pipers take their place at memorials in suburbs and rural and regional communities. In Horsham a solo piper will play at the cenotaph at 5pm.

The “Battle’s O’er” was written at the end of World War One, and adopted as a tribute to more than 2000 British and Commonwealth pipers who lost their lives in battle during the war.

A poignant tribute to the soldiers killed and wounded in World War One by more than 1000 pipers and drummers from Australian pipe bands on the Centenary of the Armistice.