More than 600 documents and photos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s extensive archives have been released online for the end of the First World War Centenary.
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The last days of WW1 – October/November 1918
A Centenary News glance at key events in the closing days of the Great War, as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires stopped fighting, and Germany too edged towards a ceasefire.
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‘Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War’ charted in new online resource
The Maritime Archaeology Trust has released an interactive map, bringing together the results of its centenary investigation into hundreds of WW1 shipwreck sites off England’s south coast.
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100 years ago – breaking news of the ‘False Armistice’
James Smith revisits the story of how premature reports of an end to the Great War flashed around the world on 7 November 1918.
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100 years ago – breaking news of the ‘False Armistice’
James Smith revisits the story of how premature reports of an end to the Great War flashed around the world on 7 November 1918.
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Kaiser Wilhelm loses throne – 9 November 1918
Germany’s Emperor, Wilhelm II, was forced to quit two days before the end of the First World War, his abdication unilaterally announced by the Chancellor.
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The Armistice – the Guns of the Great War fell silent 100 years ago today
The Armistice ending the First World War was agreed in Marshal Foch’s train at Compiègne early on the morning of 11 November 1918, coming into effect at 11 o’clock.
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