Remembrance Day Documents
This is a series of digitised documents from the Memorial's Private Records collection focusing on Remembrance Day.
AWM EXDOC 60 (360Kb PDF)
Cablegram notifying the Australian Governor-General of the signing
of the Armistice with Germany in November, 1918.
Text reads: " Governor General Melbourne Most urgent armistice
signed 5 AM this morning Long"
AWM EXDOC 176 (260Kb PDF file)
Wireless signal sent by 2nd Australian Division regarding the ceasefire
1918
Text reads: "Message from General Foch to Commander in Chief BEF
reads Hostilities will cease on the whole front on the 11th November
French Time 11 Oclock AAA. The Allied troops will not cross until further
orders the line reached on that date at that time AAA. Signed Foch
6.35 am"
 Souvenir 18/3/4 (900Kb PDF File) |
 Souvenir 18/3/1 (130Kb PDF file) |
This map shows the victorious allies’ occupation zones in Germany in the wake of the armistice of 1918. The explanation makes clear that Germany agreed to the armistice on 10 November, ending hostilities on the 11th. The date of the agreement explains the memorial card issued by the United Returned Soldiers’ Fund shortly after the war, which gives 10 November as the date on which the war ended.
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