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Description: | The Armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed at Compigne in France. The end of hostilities on the Western Front took effect at 11 o'clock on the morning of 11 November 1918, the '11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month'.
M Campbell's lively etching, completed two years later, captures the euphoria that greeted the news in London on that first Armistice Day.
Flags fly as a jubilant crowd overflows into the street and onto passing buses. A diverse foreground group includes a wounded soldier, enlisted men, children, nurses and police officers, and a kilted Scot who flirts with a passing woman. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | London at War Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1920 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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