"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" - British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, The evening of 3 August 1914.

Hostilities opened on the dawn of 4th August and continued until 11 November 1918.

"And on the eleventh hour of the eleventh month of the fourth year, the guns of August finally fell silent." Today marks the 95th anniversary of the end of the Great War, the War to End all Wars, or as it is more commonly known, World War I.

A little food for thought ...

The Parable of the Old Man and the YoungSo Abram rose, and clave the wood, ( Read more... )

"And on the eleventh hour of the eleventh month of the fourth year, the guns of August finally fell silent." Today marks the 88th anniversary of the end of the Great War, the War to End all Wars, or as it is more commonly known, World War I.