In the pre-dawn hours on 11th November 1918 in a railway clearing near Compiegne, German commanders signed an Armistice document which would finally bring an end to four years of fighting on the Western Front, during which time millions of men had fallen. In this video we will countdown those final hours and follow in the footsteps of those men who were destined not to see the end of war, the last to fall.

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Reference Material:
• N. Lloyd, Hundred Days (2014)
• M. Strohn, Winning The War, Losing The War (2018)
• M. Otte, The Meuse-Argonne 1918 (2022)
• P. Hart, 1918 – A Very British Victory (2010)

Sources:
• Find My Past (FMP)
• Memoire Des Hommes
• National Library of Scotland Image Archive
• McMaster University WW1 Trench Maps
• War Diaries of the Battalions (Naval and Military Press)
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive (CWGC)
• US National Archives (NARA)
• The National Archives, Kew (TNA)
• Google Earth Pro & Web Versions
• Memory Maps, Trench Maps of the First World War
• Maptiler Pro (Desktop Version)
- Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1984-059-06A / CC-BY-SA
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Credits:
• Research: Andrew Mullen
• Script & Narration: Dan Hill
• Editing: Shane Greer
• Thumbnail Design: Linus Klassen
• Voiceovers: Hugo Salter
• Music & Sound Effects: Epidemic Sounds/Shane Greer