The Kaizer was getting comfortable in exile in the Netherlands
the Armistice had been signed to go in effect at 11 minutes past 11.
Troops were ordered to go on their last charge and for some their death.
Getting ready to go to Ypres center, town is flooded with Brits.
Its a beautiful day here, sun is out, not a cloud or hint of wind in sight.
At 10 there is the Poppy Parade, bands will march across town like they have done every years since 1918 (except during the Second WW) with drums and pipers sounding and echoing in the streets of our since then rebuilt/replica town.
Massive police, because as usual every politician worth his money and even more politicians not worth a cent will be under the Menin Gate along with other VIP's to "Remember"
It is now 8h59
George Edwin Ellison has half an hour to live, he will be the last Brit to die in anger on the battlefield
Augustin-Joseph Victorin Trébuchon the last Frenchman to die will do so at 10h45 just after the last Belgian, Marcel Terfve who got shot in the lung at 10h42, his last words to the stretcher barer : "I want to die standing".
The Last American, Henry Nicholas John Gunther got killed one minute before the Armistice at 10h59 a.m.
Odly enough ,the last Germans to die from hostile fire, were killed in June 1919, in Scapaflow when they had scuttled their ships laying captured there.
They had been stuck, prisoner there as skeleton crews for the ships and were not getting fed much... so they sank their ships just so they could move on and get back home.
They were shot as they were rowing in their lifeboats towards the shore because they were considered spies & saboteurs..