The Signing of the Armistice
The Entente delegation led by France’s Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Britain’s 1st Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss pose by the train carriage, 2419D, in which the armistice that finally ended the Great War was signed.
The negotiations and eventual signing of the armistice took place in the Forest of Compiègne in the early hours of the morning of the 11th. The German delegation, not pictured, was led by a politician Matthias Erzberger.
The armistice didn’t end the war, it merely paused it. It agreed an initial ceasefire between the 11th November to the 13th December 1918. It was subsequently extended several times until a peace agreement was finally signed on the 10th January, 1920.
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