Remembrance Day commemorations will be held around the country today, 90 years after the end of World War I.

Thousands of people are expected to attend a service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

The guns fell silent on the Western Front on November 11, 1918.

Ten million soldiers lost their lives in the Great War - 60,000 of them were Australian.

Don Rowe from the RSL hopes their sacrifice is on the minds of all Australian's today.

"We as a nation are indeed indebted to them and the only way we can repay that debt is never forgetting what they did for us," he said.

Mr Rowe says the tradition of Remembrance Day began after World War I.

"It really affected everybody, it affected certainly every family in Australia at that time," he said.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will be among those paying their respects in Canberra.

Thousands are expected to attend the ceremony in Canberra.

Leigh Harris from the Australian War Memorial says crowds at today's ceremony will be invited to lay poppies on the tomb of the unknown soldier.

"Poppies are significant for Remembrance Day because it was the first flower to bloom on the Western Front at the end of the First World War after all the fighting had finished," she said.

Meanwhile, A 107-year-old veteran of both World Wars has used Remembrance Day to call for Australian troops to be brought home.

Claude Choules enlisted in the British Royal Navy when he was 14-years-old and was present at the scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow at the end of World War I.

He moved to Western Australia in 1926, and served with the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.

Mr Choules says he would like to see an end to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I don't want to see any more wars. Seeing war is not exciting, like it used to be," he said.

When World War II broke out, Mr Choules says he decided to fight again, this time with the Royal Australian Navy.

"I thought well, it's exciting once, it should be exciting twice. Why not," he said.