{"id":278183,"date":"2018-11-11T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/11\/11-am-11-11-18\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:17:09","slug":"11-am-11-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/11\/11-am-11-11-18\/","title":{"rendered":"11 AM, 11 \/ 11 \/ 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

levynite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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littlepinkbeast<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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petermorwood<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Received from Brigade <\/b>\u2013 PRIORITY<\/b> \u2013 11-11-18<\/b><\/p>\n

Handed in at 175 Brigade <\/b>Office 10:00 hrs<\/b> \u2013 received 10:05 hrs<\/b><\/p>\n

To 12th<\/sup> BATTALION<\/b><\/p>\n

Hostilities cease 11:00 today<\/b> [aaa] Troops will stand fast on the
\noutpost line already established <\/b>[aaa] All military precautions will be
\nobserved and there will be no communication with the enemy<\/b> [aaa] Further
\ninstructions later<\/b> [aaa] Acknowledge<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u2026and of course\u2026<\/p>\n

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The English and French headlines are both easy. What the German one says is: \u201cAcceptance of Armistice Terms. Kaiser Interned. Hindenburg on the Run.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

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But not soon enough.
\nNot soon enough at all.<\/p>\n

These dates tell their own story.<\/p>\n

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George Edwin Ellison, 5th Royal Irish Lancers, British Army – killed
\n09:30 am<\/b><\/p>\n

11\/11\/18.<\/p>\n

Augustin Joseph Tr\u00e9buchon, 415e R\u00e9giment d’Infanterie, Arm\u00e9e de Terre Fran\u00e7aise – killed 10:50 am<\/b><\/p>\n

11\/11\/18.<\/p>\n

\nGeorge Lawrence Price, 28th Battalion (Northwest), Canadian Expeditionary Force – killed 10:58 am<\/b> 11\/11\/18.<\/p>\n

\nHenry John Gunther,\u00a0
\n313th Infantry Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces – killed 10:59 am<\/b> 11\/11\/18.<\/b><\/p>\n

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At least those men had names, and their relatives knew what had happened.<\/p>\n

Others were less fortunate.<\/p>\n

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Many didn\u2019t get even anonymous graves and headstones. Their bodies were lost, to exploding shells, ever-present mud and a shifting battlefront, until only names and memories remained.<\/p>\n

Those names have sunlight and clean rain at the Thiepval Memorial\u2026<\/p>\n

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They have bugles every evening at the Menin Gate\u2026<\/p>\n

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And the memory of them has the song of skylarks, above Flanders fields where poppies still grow where they fell.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
\nWe will remember them.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Remember.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One hundred years ago today. Here\u2019s Benjamin Britten\u2019s War Requiem, the Latin mass intercut with Wilfred Owen poems:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsSMCq7pl_k<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lest we forget everyone else not European<\/p>\n

http:\/\/multimedia.scmp.com\/ww1-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-46148207<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

levynite: littlepinkbeast: petermorwood: Received from Brigade \u2013 PRIORITY \u2013 11-11-18 Handed in at 175 Brigade Office 10:00 hrs \u2013 received 10:05 hrs To 12th BATTALION Hostilities cease 11:00 today [aaa] Troops will stand fast on the outpost line already established [aaa] All military precautions will be observed and there will be no communication with the … <\/p>\n

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