To mark the 60th Anniversary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
'There was a fellow came galloping across the meadow on a grey horse, and he stopped when he saw me and he said, "It's finished... you know." I said. "What's finished?" And he said, "The War". Well, I was simply struck dumb because we'd got to the stage where we didn't think it could ever finish, we'd been there so long some of us.'
It was a Monday. There was no radio and no television and the news of the Armistice took many people by surprise. At 11.00am it was true. The War would finally be over. This is a portrait of that momentous day. Compiled from interviews recorded 60 years later with some of the men and women who remember it.
Introduced by Leslie Sands
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