Most urgent cablegram, 11 November 1918

Most urgent cablegram notifying the Prime Minister’s Department of the signing of the Armistice, 11 November 1918
Cablegram notifying the Prime Minister’s Department of the signing of the Armistice, 11 November 1918

This cablegram notified the Prime Minister’s Department of the signing of the Armistice. The cease-fire came into effect at 11am Paris time, hence the oft-quoted ‘eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month’.

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