11th November 1918
Western Front
British capture Mons before dawn.
Armistice signed at 5 am. Hostilities on all fronts cease at 11 am.
End of the Battle of the Sambre.
British front extends about 60 miles from near Montbliart (east of Avesnes) to just north of Grammont; held from south to north by Fourth, First, Fifth and Second Armies. Positions unchanged until 17 November.
Eastern Front
British recognise Lettish Government as independent.
New National Government in Estonia orders general mobilisation.
Polish Directorate established at Warsaw; Regency Council deposed.
Political, etc.
Appeal of Dr. Solf, German Foreign Minister, to President Wilson for mitigation of armistice terms.
Abdication of Grand Dukes of Hesse, Mecklenburg and Saxe-Weimar. King of Saxony and Grand Duke of Oldenburg dethroned.
German Socialist Coalition Ministry formed.
Message of King George to British Empire.
Great rejoicings in England.
Speech of President Wilson at Washington.
Expulsion of Bolshevist Mission from Switzerland.
British soldier George Edwin Ellison, French soldier Augustin Trébuchon, Canadian soldier George Lawrence Price, and American soldier Henry Gunther are few of the last known Allied soldiers killed in the War. Gunther is killed 1 minute before 11 am.
On “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” the armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers comes into effect. The Great War is over.
Ship Losses:
SMS Berlin II (Imperial German Navy) The Vorpostenboot was lost on this date.
SMS Feronia (Imperial German Navy) The depôt ship was scuttled at Antwerp, Belgium.