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[quinie]

When did WW1 end? 1918 or 1919?

[EGTB]

Most people say 1914-1918
Though there is the famous signing of the armistice at the 11th hour of the 11day of the 11th month in 1918 which is when Rememberance day is (on the Sunday nearest
However
A formal state of war between the two sides existed, until signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919

[quinie]

Thank you EGTB. This is a question in a local quiz. My friends put 1918 but I put 1919 -my husband's uncle was killed at Archangel in 1919.

[jake-the-peg]

The treaty of Verseille was signed in June 1919 - hostilities ended in 1918 of course

[dotty.]

quinnie that was the bolshevik revolution . was he in the navy/

[VHG]

While hostilities ended in 1918 the peace treaty was signed in 1919.

Fighting COULD still have broken our late in 1918 or early 1919, so officially the war ended in 1919.

Some stautes to WW1 soldiers do put 1914-1919.

[quinie]

Thanks to all who answered. I've been checking my genealogy info on my husband's uncle. I have a lot of info from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission giving historical information,etc He died on 9 September, 1919 and was in the 46th Bn., Royal Fusiliers

[dotty.]

that was the day the British army started to withdraw from Archangel, Russia read this from the start of the 1919 entries:
http://www.cairogang....ered-men/angliss.html

[quinie]

dotty, I had a quick look through the article. Will read it later when I've time. Hard lines that John was killed on the day the withdrawal started! He tried to get his friend ( later my husband's father) to go with him but he'd had enough of war

[spudqueen]

In the TV series 'When The Boat Comes In' which is set in the years following WWI the character played by James Bolam (Jack Ford) had spent time in Murmansk. This is mentioned quite a bit in various episodes.

[123everton]

Dedications to deaths on monuments dating to 1919 more than likely relate to deaths from wounds sustained during the war.
A death attributable to an an earlier (like murder) did not apply if the victim lived for a year and a day.