November 6, 1918

[NutmegCT]

One hundred years ago today:

The Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland is declared.

Germany's Parliament urges the Kaiser to abdicate.

French and American forces re-capture Sedan (France) from the occupying German military.

Armistice negotiations between the Allied forces and Germany continue. Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire have already ended participation in the war.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Good post Tom. This is a momentous year history wise, I look forward to seeing "They Shall Now Grow Old" and other things commemorating the end of WWI.

 

[Boink]

I visited this very site (of the forward field hospital) in August 2014 (100th of the starting month, those "Guns of August"). A stirring location.
In this shot, the hospital bunkers are behind the plaque. A sad fact is that although there was an armistice and the German military knew they were utterly defeated, the people of Germany didn't think so... and this was, in part, sowing seeds for the next war. The reparations they had to make were enormous. The entire town of nearby Ypres was completely restored by 1922, and it looks very original to this day.
What really struck me about this visit to the Flanders in Belgium was how SMALL the area really is.
Another stunner were the many cemeteries:
a) the American one is very small (owing to us entering the war very late) - with a number of stones marking death on Nov. 10th!!! (day before the end)
b) one of the Allied/English ones is orderly except for a few oddly positioned stones... which are places where that man fell!!!!
c) the German one has what amounts to some pits that indicate "these are the remains of 40,000 men" (or equivalent)
Finally, unexploded ordinance is still be uncovered to this day.

 

[PAUL161]

I think my signature tells how I feel. :concern: PJ

 

[JPSmit]

John McCrae (Flanders Fields) was Canadian and my mom goes to the church he was from St Andrew's Guelph.