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THE ARMISTICE DAY, NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 80135) Crowd cheering outside Buckingham Palace during the Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205324739

The Times 12 November 1918 p10. Right click for full page.



THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 9574) Troops of the 8th Battalion, the King’s (Liverpool Regiment, Liverpool Irish, 57th Division) entering Lille, 18 October 1918. Note a barefooted French boy with a rifle, clearly given to him by a smiling soldier on his right. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245319

THE ARMISTICE DAY, NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 65858) A group of happy girls in an American automobile in London on the day the Armistice was signed, 11 November 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205086034

THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 11367) Capture of Cambrai by the British 57th Division. Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment wearing pickelhaubes which they found whilst on patrol in Cambrai, 9 October 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205216088


THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918 (Q 3362) The Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment stands on a lorry surrounded by his men and leads a cheer to the King, St Waast, near Bavai, 12 November 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235905


THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 9358) Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Prisoners in a clearing depot at Abbeville, 2nd October 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245117


Wemyss and Foch (and others) after the signing of the Armistice.


The Kaiser on his way to the Netherlands


THE SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET, NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 19288) Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Cardiff leading the German battle cruisers into the Firth of Forth. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193781


THE SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET, NOVEMBER 1918 (Q 20157) German submarines at their moorings at Parkestone Quay, Harwich, November 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205260942


THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918 (Q 9689) Field Marshal Douglas Haig (centre front) with his Army Commanders at Cambrai, 11 November 1918. Left to right behind him are: General Herbert Plumer (Second Army), General Julian Byng (Third Army), General William Birdwood (Fifth Army), General Henry Rawlinson (Fourth Army), and General Henry Horne (First Army). Behind them are Lieutenant Generals John Davidson, Montgomery, Louis Vaughan and othe… Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205125186


THE BRITISH ARMY OF THE RHINE, 1919-1929 (Q 7652) A 12th Battalion tank, serial number 9339, on the Rhine embankment near the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, 22 May 1919. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239467


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