Month: November 2019
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The End? Part 2 : Armistice 1918
Monday 11th November 1918 At 10.40 a.m news reached the Echo office by telephone that The Armistice had been signed at 5 a.m. that morning and came into force at 11 a.m. The discussion between the German delegates and those of the Allies had lasted all night. A special edition of the newspaper was immediately…
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The End? The final days before Armistice 1918
“In war, truth is the first casualty”, so said Aeschylus. It is not surprising, therefore, that the news of the impending end of the war was greeted, as Cheltenham’s Rector of the Parish Church Rev H.A. Wilson said, “…with dazzling suddenness”. Who knew what to believe from newspaper reports in the Echo? Local and national…