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the Great War ends.

A symbolic time which inevitably meant people did for the time.

Germany had folded her hand, stripped of manpower, supplies and food the armistice was signed.

In the humiliation of Germany that followed the seeds of the Second World War were sown.

	The war to end all wars ended by starting the second..

The war to end all wars ended by starting the second.

But in 1918 it was far away, too many people had poured their blood into Europe's soil.

the cost

Nine million were dead, 21 million were wounded and a further 7 million imprisoned or just lost.

The Battles fought are names which still live in the memories of people around the world and always should.

WILLS, ALLIED ARMY LEADERS

There is no justice in naming them as every name I leave out is a sin.

Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary and France all lost around a million souls.

What is often forgotten are the countries that rallied to the flags of the Empires.

Australia lost over 63,000 souls (1 in 5 of those that served) with total casualties (including those injured) rising to over 60%.

The US lost some 51,000.

the theatres

The war raged on the sea with the largest naval engagement ever with the Battle of Jutland where the British navy enforced superiority over the oceans.

	Some 6 million civilians died of starvation.

It raged in the air with the early airforces, but most of all it was fought in muddy water filled trenches for month after month.

Thousands died in France for the sake of a few yards of land as soldiers walked across no mans land into a wall of machine gun fire to hang themselves on enemy barb-wire.

	ON THIS DAY...
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It was not a war confined to just those that fought it. Some 6 million civilians died of starvation, diseases and exposure.

All this is worth two minutes silence once a year.