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Jules-André Peugeot becomes the first French soldier to die in WWI, killed by a sabre of a German cavalryman:

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Damn, imagine being the first guy to get killed in a war.
 
Wilfred Owen fell on 4.11.1918. The news of his death arrived in his hometown when the church bells had just started ringing marking the war's end.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7696021.stm says the following:

In the Argonne region of France, US soldier Henry Gunther was involved in a final charge against astonished German troops who knew the Armistice was about to occur. What could they do? He too was shot.
The Baltimore Private - ironically of German descent - was dead. It was 10.59 and Henry Gunther is now recognised as the last soldier to be killed in action in WWI.
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1 minute.
 
Gunther had it coming though, he kept on firing shots at German soldiers who tried to wave him off by informing him of the ceasefire.
 
The Flash said:
Gunther had it coming though, he kept on firing shots at German soldiers who tried to wave him off by informing him of the ceasefire.
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Perhaps, although 1 minute before there was George Lawrence Price, which ain't exactly a whole lot of difference.

George Price was fatally shot in the region of his heart by a German sniper as he stepped out of the house into the street, against contrary advice from a house occupant, at 10:58 a.m
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Crimson Idol said:
Perhaps, although 1 minute before there was George Lawrence Price, which ain't exactly a whole lot of difference.
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So was it literally like:

"Hey Hans, how much time have we got left?"
"It's 10:58...so 2 minutes."
*2 minutes later*
"It's 11:00, guys, drop your weapons, no shooting anymore, the war is over."

??
 
SixesAlltheway said:
No...

But it would be nice if modern ahem, "warfare", would learn from that decade. Things never really seem to end nowadays.
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Playing football in no-mans land at christmas is another example of putting things aside.

Tonight across England (britain?) all lights are being turned out for an hour in commemoration.
 
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