On August 3, 1914, Britain’s Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, was looking out of his office window. It was dusk, and the gas lights were being lit along London’s Mall, leading to Buckingham Palace, when he famously remarked to a friend, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

Great Britain was about to be plunged into the darkness of the First World War, and it would be four long years before Britain and Europe would again experience the light of peace.

Now, in commemoration and remembrance of the end of the war and the many millions who were killed or came home dreadfully wounded, 1000 'Beacons of Light' will be lit at 7pm on Sunday, November 11 throughout the country - a century after the guns fell silent - with towns in Powys also set to take part.

Organisers say the Beacons will symbolise the 'light of hope' that emerged from the darkness of war.

At the 14-metre-high Portland Stone County War Memorial on Town Hill, Montgomery, a beacon will be lit following a short ceremony while in Welshpool beacons are set to be lit at the Town Hall and also at the top of Red Bank.

Outside the county, beacons will be lit on Tower Hill, London, on the most northerly inhabited island in the UK, the Shetland isle of Unst in Scotland, and as far afield as St Helena and the British Virgin Islands.

Organisers say the event will also commemorate the huge army of men and women on the home front who underpinned the war effort by keeping the wheels of industry turning, and bringing the harvests home to ensure the nation did not starve.