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.
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 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 ...
The warring parties in first world war signed no fewer than 16 peace treaties ... s Brest in Belarus - it followed a December 1917 armistice sought by an overwhelmed Russia immediately after ...
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 ...
On April 4, 1917, the SPAD S.XIII fighter biplane took its maiden flight, marking a pivotal moment in World War I aviation.
In a solemn ceremony at the Orwigsburg Free Public Library, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a World War I medal to the descendants of Joseph William Morrison, a Private First […] ...
Boylston’s vivid account of her World War I nursing experience, published in 1927, depicts her work with the first Harvard Unit ... in France until after the armistice, and was awarded the ...
A Whitehorse student is among those chosen from across Canada to visit the Vimy Ridge memorial and learn more about the First ...
MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. The Kremlin has received an invitation from the French side to the centenary of Armistice Day (the end of the First World War). It is set to take place in November in ...
A World War I medal has been returned to the family of Joseph William Morrison, who was a Private First Class in the Army ...