Скачать или смотреть From the IWM Archive: Armistice

IWM's Film collection includes footage depicting how people reacted to the signing of the Armistice in November 1918 - and the life changing impact the conflict had on millions of men, women and children.

For #Armistice100, we are sharing this video featuring footage of the celebration of peace, the consequence of conflict and the commemoration of the war dead.

Section 1. Armistice Day - scenes in the Charing Cross area of central London, 11th November 1918. Film IWM 505

Section 2. Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, walks through cheering crowds and is driven off, 11th November 1918. Film IWM 664a

Section 3. Refugees returning to their home towns, probably the Le Cateau road, Western Front, 11th-18th November 1918. Film IWM 367

Section 4. Amputee soldiers at the Army rehabilitation centre at Roehampton (Autumn 1917) Film IWM 1098

Section 5. A temporary British cemetery in France, possibly Thelus. Film IWM 505

Section 6. The coffin of the Unknown Warrior carried along the dockside at Dover, 10 November 1920. Film IWM 505

Section 7. King George V lays a wreath on the coffin of the Unknown Soldier and unveils the Cenotaph, 11 November 1920. Film IWM 505

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