Veteran's day: The Great War’s final tragedy? 2,738 men died on the Armistice morning – more than the Allies lost on D-Day… just one of the heart-rending human details laid bare in this minute-by-minute account of November 11, 1918 CLICK HERE
As they woke on the morning of November 11 1918, nearly 10 million men on both sides of the Western Front knew from developments over recent days that an armistice was imminent (pictured, soldiers in Nousard, France celebrating the end of the war). But what they did not know yet was that at 5.30am, in the Compiegne Foreest just north of Paris, the Armistice agreement was signed. Heart-rendering details of the last day of World War One have been laid bare in a minute-by-minute account of the final 24 hours.