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Extraordinary coincidence: First and last British WW1 casualties graves only 15' apart
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:03 am
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:03 am
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The proximity of the graves of Private John Parr, killed 17 days after Britain declared war, and Private George Ellison, who died 90 minutes before the armistice, is said to be a coincidence – a consequence of the fact that Mons was lost to the Germans at the opening of the war and regained at the very end.
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Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:05 am to weagle99
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Within minutes, news of the Armistice - the cease fire - had been flashed around the world that the war, which was meant to "end all wars", was finally over. And yet it wasn't, because the cease-fire would not come into effect for a further six hours - at 11am - so troops on the frontline would be sure of getting the news that the fighting had stopped.
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The respected American author Joseph E Persico has calculated a shocking figure that the final day of WWI would produce nearly 11,000 casualties, more than those killed, wounded or missing on D-Day, when Allied forces landed en masse on the shores of occupied France almost 27 years later.
What is worse is that hundreds of these soldiers would lose their lives thrown into action by generals who knew that the Armistice had already been signed.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:05 am to weagle99
Damn. That war was absolute hell.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:05 am to weagle99
Thanks for the sads baw 
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:07 am to Wolfhound45
And in case anyone is wondering...
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But Pte Price's death at 10.58 was not the last. Further south in the Argonne region of France, US soldier Henry Gunther was involved in a final charge against astonished German troops who knew the Armistice was about to occur. What could they do? He too was shot.
The Baltimore Private - ironically of German descent - was dead. It was 10.59 and Henry Gunther is now recognised as the last soldier to be killed in action in WWI.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:13 am to weagle99
Lt. General William Wright's attack on November 11, 1918, was downright criminal. His 89th Division attacked the German-held town of Stenay and suffered 365 casualties in the process (including 61 dead). The reasoning? He wanted to seize the bathhouses in town so his men could have proper showers once the armistice took effect.
This post was edited on 5/7/17 at 11:14 am
Posted on 5/7/17 at 11:33 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:05 pm to weagle99
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:17 pm to weagle99
Pipers would stand above the trench playing music when it was time for an attack. Defenseless.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 5:12 pm to Wolfhound45
Michael Palin (Monty Python) did a really good documentary on the last day of the war.
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