During the First World War it took four hours for the armistice to come into effect, and then over 12 hours for troops on the Western Front to actually stop fighting. The sad result of this tardiness?
The Daily Mirror describes the scenes of jubilation in London and around the country as the Great War ends and the armistice is signed ... saw the end of the Great World War and the triumph ...
The British military section of the cemetery honours 88 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the First World War and 48 others who lost their lives in the Second World War. The presence of foreign ...
On 11 November 1918, Germany signed an Armistice to bring World War One to an end. On 19 January 1919, elections were held for the new government.