Yeovil Celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice
100th Anniversary of the Armistice
How Yeovil came together for the 100th Anniversary
The Armistice of
11 November
1918, also known
as the Armistice
of Compiègne
from the place
where it was
signed, was the
armistice that
ended fighting
on land, sea and
air in World War
I between the
Allies and
Germany. It came
into force at
11am (Paris
time) on 11
November 1918
("the eleventh
hour of the
eleventh day of
the eleventh
month") bringing
hostilities to
an end.
Although the
armistice ended
the fighting, it
needed to be
prolonged three
times until the
Treaty of
Versailles,
which was signed
on 28 June 1919,
took effect on
10 January 1920.
In Yeovil, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice, the War Memorial in the Borough was cleaned. A new set of brass plaques containing an additional 53 names of Yeovil men who gave their lives in the conflict were installed on the memorial.
The new plaques were re-dedicated at a ceremony held on the morning of 11 November 2018 immediately before the wreath-laying ceremony.
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In the week leading up to the Armistice Centenary, poppies began to appear in Yeovil -
The shop window of Eleanor Florence in Princes Street.
... and seen from inside. It's when you see this huge number of crosses en masse, that you begin to realise how a generation of Yeovil was depleted during the conflict.
Large poppies affixed to street furniture began to appear in the first week of November, albeit chiefly in High Street and the Borough.
Yeovil in Bloom's Remembrance Day Poppy Tree in St John's churchyard.
The following photographs capture, without comment, the ceremony in the Borough on the morning of 11 November 2018, the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
