Only one in three young people knows that Remembrance Day commemorates the First World War Armistice, in a “damning indictment of history teaching” revealed by a new poll.
The survey by Ipsos found that only 33 per cent of millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) and people in Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012) know which event is remembered on Nov 11.
The poll asked more than 1,000 British adults aged from 16 to 75 what war was commemorated each year on Remembrance Day.
Less than one in two adults (47 per cent) said the First World War. Almost 30 per cent said the Second World War, while other answers included the second English Civil War, the Iraq War, and the Napoleonic Wars.