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Front Page of the Nottingham Evening Post for Monday the 11th November 1918
LAST SHOT FIRED at 11am TODAY
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GERMANY SIGNED THE ARMISTICE SIX HOURS BEFORE THE TIME LIMIT EXPIRED
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The news for which the world has been so anxiously waiting for has come at last, and the war which so far as Great Britain is concerned, in the night of August 4th 1914, came to an end this morning with the signing of the armistice bt the German emissaries.
The announcement was made by the premier, the message being received by us at 10.34. Though consisting of not more than twenty words, it conveyed not only the news that the armistice terms had been agreed to, but the war will cease on all fronts at the hour which had been fixed upon for the expiration of the time allowed to Germany to make her decision. There had been little doubt to what Germany’s decision would be; all the same Mr. Lloyd George’s announcement was received with infinite relief, and universal gratification. The momentous message is as follows.
The Armistice was signed at five o’clock this morning, and hostilities are to cease on all fronts at 11am today
The following message has been sent through the wireless stations of the French Government. “Hostilities will cease on the whole front as from November 11am at 11 o’clock (French time). The Allied troops will not, until a further order, go beyond the line reached that date and that hour (Signed) FOCH.
The German plenipotentiaries sent this message to the German High Command: “ The Armistice was signed at five o’clock in the morning (French time). It comes into force at 11 o’clock in the morning (French time). Delay for the evacuation prolonged by 24 hours for the left bank of the Rhine, besides the five days; therefore 31 days in all.
Today's report from Field Marshall Haig records the capture of Mons, so the remarkable fact has to chronicled that the war, as far as concerns the British forces engaged, end where it began. The report dispatched at 10.19, is as follows: “Shortly before dawn this morning the Canadian troops of the First Army, under General Horne, captured Mons.
Casualties of November the 11th 1918: It is believed around 11,000 casualties were taken on both sides on November 11th 1918. Of those, it's estimated around 2,750 were killed. Commonwealth War Graves records indicated the Commonwealth armies lost 910 dead on November the 11th.
