What was the armistice and when was it signed?<\/span><\/h2>\nAt 2.05am on 11 November 1918, after four years of conflict, a German delegation sat down in the railway carriage of Allied supreme commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, a few hours\u2019 north of Paris. Talks had gone on for three days, and the German delegates were close to accepting the terms for an armistice, a formal agreement to end the fighting.<\/p>\n
The Germans had been defeated after a brutal summer of attrition; over the past four months, Allied and American forces had overwhelmed the final line of German defences in the battles of the Hundred Days Offensive. On 9 November 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II had been persuaded to seek asylum in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
\n- Read more | 11 November 1918: The day the world turned upside down<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the early hours of 11 November, final terms were laid out and at 5.12am, the armistice was signed. It declared the \u201ccessation of hostilities by land and in the air six hours after the signing\u201d. Terms of the agreement included: the immediate German withdrawal from the territories they had acquired during the conflict; the disarmament and demobilisation of the German military; and the release of Allied prisoners. The terms made it impossible for Germany to resume any fighting.<\/p>\n
This was the last of the September\u2013November 1918 armistices between the warring nations, and peace came into effect six hours after the armistice was signed, at 11am \u2013 or at the \u201celeventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month\u201d. It has been estimated that during the time between the signing and the announcement of peace, the war produced a further 11,000 casualties.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> An illustration depicting signing of armistice in a railroad car on 11 November 1918. (Photo by Stefano Bianchetti\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe armistice was never intended to be a permanent peace treaty between the nations; this would be attempted with the Treaty of Versailles<\/a>, signed seven months later. In January 1919, the leaders of 32 countries met in Paris \u2013 without Germany. Negotiations were led by the \u2018big three\u2019: British prime minister David Lloyd George; French prime minister Georges Clemenceau; and US president Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\nThe aim of the treaty was to make sure that Germany would never again pose a\u00a0military\u00a0threat to the rest of Europe. It left Germany with reduced territories, a significantly smaller army and navy, and the duty to assume \u2018war guilt\u2019 and pay an unspecified amount of \u2018reparations\u2019 to the Allies.<\/p>\n
The terms of the treaty were considered harsh by many, and British prime minister David Lloyd George predicted: \u201cWe shall have to fight another war again in 25 years\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> French premier Georges Clemenceau, American president Woodrow Wilson and British prime minister Lloyd George after signing the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch\/Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nAfter the treaty was signed in June 1919, some right-wing German movements framed the signing of the armistice by German commanders in 1918 as a \u2018stab in the back\u2019. The treaty is often regarded to be a key factor in the rise of German military sentiment and action in the 1930s, giving way to the rise of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi party<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn a symbolic action, the same train carriage in which the November 1918 armistice was signed was later used by Adolf Hitler<\/a> when he accepted France\u2019s surrender to the German forces in 1940.<\/p>\n\n- Read more | The First World War: Was it worth it?<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
When was the first Armistice Day?<\/h2>\n
Not to be confused with Remembrance Sunday, which is marked on the second Sunday of November each year, Armistice Day has been commemorated on 11 November since the first anniversary of the end of the First World War, in November 1919.<\/p>\n
As part of the first year events, King George V<\/a> hosted a banquet at Buckingham Palace \u201cin Honour of The President of the French Republic\u201d. A two-minute silence was also held for the fallen, and ever since it has since been a tradition in Britain to pause for a\u00a0two-minute silence at 11am on 11 November to remember those killed in the war. This has since been extended to commemorate the lives lost in other conflicts.<\/p>\nOver the last century, the day has become a more sombre day of reflection, marked with poppies and respectful silence. However, 11 November 1918 was a moment of wild celebration for many. \u201cThe day the war ended was a weird and wonderful carnival rather than the day of mournful seriousness that Armistice Day would become in later years,\u201d wrote Guy Cuthbertson for BBC History Magazine.<\/em><\/a> \u201cThe armistice brought church services and tears, but it was a day of joy, spontaneity, noise and fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n- Read more | Debate: Is British history too fixated with the story of the world wars?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In Cambridge, students threw books, a bull was driven into one of the colleges, and an effigy of the kaiser was burned in the market square while people danced round the bonfire.<\/p>\n
On 12 November, the Daily Mirror\u00a0<\/em>reported: \u201cConversation in the Strand was impossible owing to the din of cheers, whistles, hooters and fireworks\u201d.<\/p>\nWhile the initial celebrations were filled with relief and jubilation in many quarters, the soldiers still had to be \u2018demobbed\u2019 and huge swathes of the population were irrevocably changed. Peter Hart, an oral historian at the Imperial War Museum\u2019s Sound Archive, \u00a0wrote in 2009 about the many soldiers<\/a> who returned home with mental and physical scars.\u201cMany had presumed that they would not live to see the end of the war. Part of their mental defences was the idea that they had nothing to look forward to; that as doomed men they did not have much to lose if they were killed. In a flash their mental landscape had changed.\u201d<\/p>\n ![\"Soldiers]( "\\"Soldiers")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> Soldiers celebrating World War I Armistice. (Photo by Time Life Pictures\/US Army Signal Corps\/The LIFE Picture Collection\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe British continued to refer to 1914\u201318 as \u2018the Great War\u2019in the 1920s and 1930s, but after 1945 they adopted American terminology and spoke of \u2018the First World War\u2019 and the \u2018Second World War\u2019.<\/p>\n
According to David Reynolds,professor of international history at the University of Cambridge, this changed the nature of commemoration. \u201cAfter 1945, both Armistice Day on 11 November and the Two-Minute silence fell out of fashion. Instead, the dead of both world wars were honoured on the nearest weekend, known as Remembrance Sunday,\u201d he explained in an article for BBC History Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nFor Reynolds, the last third of the 20th century stands in contrast with what had come before, as, with the retreat from empire, compulsory military service was abandoned. \u201cApart from the Falklands, foreign wars seemed a relic of the past,\u2019 he writes. \u201cBut over the last quarter-century, war has returned to our national agenda, in the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan. The deaths of young soldiers today gives new life and meaning to stories and poems from Britain\u2019s greatest war. The two-minute silence has gained new resonance, likewise the poppy appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Why are poppies worn?<\/span><\/h2>\n ![\"Poppies]( "\\"Poppies")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> Poppies on a memorial wall in Flanders, Belgium. (Photo by Chris Jackson\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe poppy is forever linked with the landscapes of the First World War, with the deep red flower covering many battlefields on the western front.<\/p>\n
The first poppy appeal took its symbol from a 1915 poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor. McCrae wrote \u2018In Flanders Fields\u2019 after one of his friends, a young Canadian soldier, was killed by an exploding German artillery shell. The opening verse cements the symbol of poppies as a \u201cmark\u201d for the fallen:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Flanders fields the poppies blowThe British Legion was established in May 1921, with the intent to aid and improve the lives of ex-servicemen and their wives and children, as well as widows, parents and orphans who had lost family during the war. The legion adopted the poppy as a symbol of remembrance, with the first held Poppy Day on 11 November 1921. Today it is seen most commonly in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> British former field marshal Douglas Haig inspects memorial wreaths before Armistice Day, October 1922. (Photo by Topical Press Agency\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe symbol has also been the subject of some controversy. Some claim that its \u201cblood-red\u201d colour represents war and death, while others choose to wear a white poppy. The white symbol was first adopted in the 1930s by the Peace Pledge Union, with the aim of representing \u201cremembrance of all victims of war\u201d, rather than the red poppy which \u201csymbolises remembrance of British armed forces and its allies rather than enemies and civilians who also died in wars\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Royal British Legion has stated that the red poppy remains \u201can emblem of remembrance and hope\u201d and should not be seen as a symbol of religion or politics.What is the tomb of the Unknown Warrior?<\/span><\/h2>\nAfter the First World War, in which Britain saw the loss of nearly three quarters of a million people, it was almost impossible to bring home such a large number of bodies. So the dead were interred and commemorated along the battlefronts in nearly a thousand cemeteries and monuments constructed by the Imperial War Graves Commission, in what was one of the biggest public works projects of the 1920s.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> The memorial to the Unknown Warrior in the nave of Westminster Abbey, photographed in 2012. (Photo by Jim Dyson\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nHowever, many soldiers had been literally blown to bits by shellfire and their remains were never found.<\/p>\n
In November 1920, the tomb of the Unknown Warrior was created at the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey. The tomb was the idea of Folkestone clergyman Reverend\u00a0David Railton, who had seen a grave in France marked with a cross and pencilled words: \u201cAn Unknown British Soldier\u201d. He believed that the families of those who had died, but had no graves, should have somewhere to grieve.<\/p>\n
The grave contains soil from France, is covered by a slab of black Belgian marble from a quarry near Namur, and contains the remains of unknown British servicemen exhumed from four battle areas: the Aisne, the Somme, Arras and Ypres. The burial in November 1920 was attended by leading politicians, senior military figures and King George V. During the following week, an estimated 1.25 million people visited the tomb.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> King George V places a wreath on the flag-draped coffin of an unidentified British soldier, 11 November 1920, ahead of the coffin\u2019s burial in the tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey. (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nOn her wedding day in 1923, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon \u2013 later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother \u2013 laid her wedding bouquet on the tomb, in honour of her elder brother Fergus, who had been killed at the battle of Loos. The tradition has since been carried on by other royal brides.<\/p>\n
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How have Armistice commemorations changed in the 21st century?<\/span><\/h2>\nIn 2018, commemorations took place across the world to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Around 10,000 flames were lit<\/a> at the Tower of London, while British prime minister Theresa May and French president Emmanuel Macron marked the signing of the armistice on 9 November with a meeting at the Somme memorial<\/a> in Albert, northern France.<\/p>\nMany considered whether the most commonly recognised symbols of the First World War still go \u2018far enough\u2019 in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
Professor Maggie Andrews, professor of cultural history at the University of Worcester, recently described the \u201cmyth of the stoic young British Tommy<\/a> \u2013 duped into volunteering for a futile war\u201d, which gained status in the run-up to the centenary, especially in the context of more modern conflicts. \u201cThe Tommy as a reticent, rather than active participant in the killing of enemy troops is central, for example, to the mythical status of the Christmas day football matches played in no man\u2019s land, 1914,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMyths are not fabrication, but they simplify, purify and silence, while smoothing over the cracks and crevices \u2013 the bumps and lumps \u2013 of the past, as they are woven into heritage attractions or film and television histories.\u201d<\/p>\n ![\"A]( "\\"A")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east-China. (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nElsewhere, historian David Olusoga wrote for BBC World Histories\u00a0<\/em>on the extensive contributions of Africans and Asians to the conflict<\/a>, and going beyond the western front. \u201cThe First World War was global in a way that previous wars had not been. Not only were battles fought in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and naval engagements across the world\u2019s oceans, but men (and some women) from every continent were drawn into Europe to fight in the trenches, to labour in the militarised zones behind the lines, and to populate the factories that fed the great war machine of the Entente Powers.\u201d<\/p>\nOn X (formerly Twitter)<\/a>\u00a0in 2018, History Extra\u00a0<\/em>readers shared what they would like to see from a 21st-century commemoration:<\/p>\nAs we approach the #Armistice<\/a>, what lesser-known parts of the First World War would you like to see commemorated? (We may print comments) #WW1<\/a><\/p>\u2014 HistoryExtra (@HistoryExtra) October 19, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>
In the early hours of 11 November, final terms were laid out and at 5.12am, the armistice was signed. It declared the \u201ccessation of hostilities by land and in the air six hours after the signing\u201d. Terms of the agreement included: the immediate German withdrawal from the territories they had acquired during the conflict; the disarmament and demobilisation of the German military; and the release of Allied prisoners. The terms made it impossible for Germany to resume any fighting.<\/p>\n
This was the last of the September\u2013November 1918 armistices between the warring nations, and peace came into effect six hours after the armistice was signed, at 11am \u2013 or at the \u201celeventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month\u201d. It has been estimated that during the time between the signing and the announcement of peace, the war produced a further 11,000 casualties.<\/p>\n
![\"An](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-526101298-64f7b5c.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"An")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>The armistice was never intended to be a permanent peace treaty between the nations; this would be attempted with the Treaty of Versailles<\/a>, signed seven months later. In January 1919, the leaders of 32 countries met in Paris \u2013 without Germany. Negotiations were led by the \u2018big three\u2019: British prime minister David Lloyd George; French prime minister Georges Clemenceau; and US president Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\n The aim of the treaty was to make sure that Germany would never again pose a\u00a0military\u00a0threat to the rest of Europe. It left Germany with reduced territories, a significantly smaller army and navy, and the duty to assume \u2018war guilt\u2019 and pay an unspecified amount of \u2018reparations\u2019 to the Allies.<\/p>\n The terms of the treaty were considered harsh by many, and British prime minister David Lloyd George predicted: \u201cWe shall have to fight another war again in 25 years\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n After the treaty was signed in June 1919, some right-wing German movements framed the signing of the armistice by German commanders in 1918 as a \u2018stab in the back\u2019. The treaty is often regarded to be a key factor in the rise of German military sentiment and action in the 1930s, giving way to the rise of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi party<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a symbolic action, the same train carriage in which the November 1918 armistice was signed was later used by Adolf Hitler<\/a> when he accepted France\u2019s surrender to the German forces in 1940.<\/p>\n Not to be confused with Remembrance Sunday, which is marked on the second Sunday of November each year, Armistice Day has been commemorated on 11 November since the first anniversary of the end of the First World War, in November 1919.<\/p>\n As part of the first year events, King George V<\/a> hosted a banquet at Buckingham Palace \u201cin Honour of The President of the French Republic\u201d. A two-minute silence was also held for the fallen, and ever since it has since been a tradition in Britain to pause for a\u00a0two-minute silence at 11am on 11 November to remember those killed in the war. This has since been extended to commemorate the lives lost in other conflicts.<\/p>\n Over the last century, the day has become a more sombre day of reflection, marked with poppies and respectful silence. However, 11 November 1918 was a moment of wild celebration for many. \u201cThe day the war ended was a weird and wonderful carnival rather than the day of mournful seriousness that Armistice Day would become in later years,\u201d wrote Guy Cuthbertson for BBC History Magazine.<\/em><\/a> \u201cThe armistice brought church services and tears, but it was a day of joy, spontaneity, noise and fun.\u201d<\/p>\n In Cambridge, students threw books, a bull was driven into one of the colleges, and an effigy of the kaiser was burned in the market square while people danced round the bonfire.<\/p>\n On 12 November, the Daily Mirror\u00a0<\/em>reported: \u201cConversation in the Strand was impossible owing to the din of cheers, whistles, hooters and fireworks\u201d.<\/p>\n While the initial celebrations were filled with relief and jubilation in many quarters, the soldiers still had to be \u2018demobbed\u2019 and huge swathes of the population were irrevocably changed. Peter Hart, an oral historian at the Imperial War Museum\u2019s Sound Archive, \u00a0wrote in 2009 about the many soldiers<\/a> who returned home with mental and physical scars.\u201cMany had presumed that they would not live to see the end of the war. Part of their mental defences was the idea that they had nothing to look forward to; that as doomed men they did not have much to lose if they were killed. In a flash their mental landscape had changed.\u201d<\/p>\n The British continued to refer to 1914\u201318 as \u2018the Great War\u2019in the 1920s and 1930s, but after 1945 they adopted American terminology and spoke of \u2018the First World War\u2019 and the \u2018Second World War\u2019.<\/p>\n According to David Reynolds,professor of international history at the University of Cambridge, this changed the nature of commemoration. \u201cAfter 1945, both Armistice Day on 11 November and the Two-Minute silence fell out of fashion. Instead, the dead of both world wars were honoured on the nearest weekend, known as Remembrance Sunday,\u201d he explained in an article for BBC History Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n For Reynolds, the last third of the 20th century stands in contrast with what had come before, as, with the retreat from empire, compulsory military service was abandoned. \u201cApart from the Falklands, foreign wars seemed a relic of the past,\u2019 he writes. \u201cBut over the last quarter-century, war has returned to our national agenda, in the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan. The deaths of young soldiers today gives new life and meaning to stories and poems from Britain\u2019s greatest war. The two-minute silence has gained new resonance, likewise the poppy appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The poppy is forever linked with the landscapes of the First World War, with the deep red flower covering many battlefields on the western front.<\/p>\n The first poppy appeal took its symbol from a 1915 poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor. McCrae wrote \u2018In Flanders Fields\u2019 after one of his friends, a young Canadian soldier, was killed by an exploding German artillery shell. The opening verse cements the symbol of poppies as a \u201cmark\u201d for the fallen:<\/p>\n \u201cIn Flanders fields the poppies blow The British Legion was established in May 1921, with the intent to aid and improve the lives of ex-servicemen and their wives and children, as well as widows, parents and orphans who had lost family during the war. The legion adopted the poppy as a symbol of remembrance, with the first held Poppy Day on 11 November 1921. Today it is seen most commonly in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n The symbol has also been the subject of some controversy. Some claim that its \u201cblood-red\u201d colour represents war and death, while others choose to wear a white poppy. The white symbol was first adopted in the 1930s by the Peace Pledge Union, with the aim of representing \u201cremembrance of all victims of war\u201d, rather than the red poppy which \u201csymbolises remembrance of British armed forces and its allies rather than enemies and civilians who also died in wars\u201d.<\/p>\n The Royal British Legion has stated that the red poppy remains \u201can emblem of remembrance and hope\u201d and should not be seen as a symbol of religion or politics. After the First World War, in which Britain saw the loss of nearly three quarters of a million people, it was almost impossible to bring home such a large number of bodies. So the dead were interred and commemorated along the battlefronts in nearly a thousand cemeteries and monuments constructed by the Imperial War Graves Commission, in what was one of the biggest public works projects of the 1920s.<\/p>\n However, many soldiers had been literally blown to bits by shellfire and their remains were never found.<\/p>\n In November 1920, the tomb of the Unknown Warrior was created at the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey. The tomb was the idea of Folkestone clergyman Reverend\u00a0David Railton, who had seen a grave in France marked with a cross and pencilled words: \u201cAn Unknown British Soldier\u201d. He believed that the families of those who had died, but had no graves, should have somewhere to grieve.<\/p>\n The grave contains soil from France, is covered by a slab of black Belgian marble from a quarry near Namur, and contains the remains of unknown British servicemen exhumed from four battle areas: the Aisne, the Somme, Arras and Ypres. The burial in November 1920 was attended by leading politicians, senior military figures and King George V. During the following week, an estimated 1.25 million people visited the tomb.<\/p>\n On her wedding day in 1923, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon \u2013 later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother \u2013 laid her wedding bouquet on the tomb, in honour of her elder brother Fergus, who had been killed at the battle of Loos. The tradition has since been carried on by other royal brides.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In 2018, commemorations took place across the world to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Around 10,000 flames were lit<\/a> at the Tower of London, while British prime minister Theresa May and French president Emmanuel Macron marked the signing of the armistice on 9 November with a meeting at the Somme memorial<\/a> in Albert, northern France.<\/p>\n Many considered whether the most commonly recognised symbols of the First World War still go \u2018far enough\u2019 in the 21st century.<\/p>\n Professor Maggie Andrews, professor of cultural history at the University of Worcester, recently described the \u201cmyth of the stoic young British Tommy<\/a> \u2013 duped into volunteering for a futile war\u201d, which gained status in the run-up to the centenary, especially in the context of more modern conflicts. \u201cThe Tommy as a reticent, rather than active participant in the killing of enemy troops is central, for example, to the mythical status of the Christmas day football matches played in no man\u2019s land, 1914,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMyths are not fabrication, but they simplify, purify and silence, while smoothing over the cracks and crevices \u2013 the bumps and lumps \u2013 of the past, as they are woven into heritage attractions or film and television histories.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere, historian David Olusoga wrote for BBC World Histories\u00a0<\/em>on the extensive contributions of Africans and Asians to the conflict<\/a>, and going beyond the western front. \u201cThe First World War was global in a way that previous wars had not been. Not only were battles fought in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and naval engagements across the world\u2019s oceans, but men (and some women) from every continent were drawn into Europe to fight in the trenches, to labour in the militarised zones behind the lines, and to populate the factories that fed the great war machine of the Entente Powers.\u201d<\/p>\n On X (formerly Twitter)<\/a>\u00a0in 2018, History Extra\u00a0<\/em>readers shared what they would like to see from a 21st-century commemoration:<\/p>\n As we approach the #Armistice<\/a>, what lesser-known parts of the First World War would you like to see commemorated? (We may print comments) #WW1<\/a><\/p>\u2014 HistoryExtra (@HistoryExtra) October 19, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>![\"French](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-613480172-7685b5c.jpg?quality=90&resize=575%2C413\" "\\"French")
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When was the first Armistice Day?<\/h2>\n
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![\"Soldiers](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-50685374-6560b3a.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C402\" "\\"Soldiers")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>Why are poppies worn?<\/span><\/h2>\n
![\"Poppies](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-860421922-1096802.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Poppies")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>![\"British](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-470387217-c6a314c.jpg?quality=90&resize=537%2C413\" "\\"British")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>What is the tomb of the Unknown Warrior?<\/span><\/h2>\n
![\"The](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-607519624-84531c3.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C411\" "\\"The")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>![\"King](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-124509349-ea4e3db.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C398\" "\\"King")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>How have Armistice commemorations changed in the 21st century?<\/span><\/h2>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-3170981-ebda14d.jpg?quality=90&resize=561%2C413\" "\\"A")
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