My grandparents and my parents, who all lived through it, always referred to 1914 – 1919 as “THE GREAT WAR”. The conflict between 1939 and 1945 was just “THE WAR”. I feel that to refer to “THE KAISER’S WAR” -( perhaps a more accurate title!) as merely “WORLD WAR I” somehow diminishes its effects and appalling consequences, not just for Britain but for Europe, reducing it to the status of merely an overture to “WORLD WAR TWO”.
Many British War Memorials give the dates as 1914 – 1919 because although fighting
ceased with the Armistice taking effect “at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918, peace was not officially concluded until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Also, earlier in the same year, the German Admiral commanding the interned heavy units of the High Seas Fleet, ordered his ships to sink themselves, thus breaching the terms of the Armistice.
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Locomotive & Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth...

THE EAST SUFFOLK RAILWAY, by Rosemary Burton, Geofrey Body,...

Drawing a Line, Railway Landscapes, the Hull-Bridlington-Scarborough...

“Per Rail” – Transportation is the Life Blood of Commerce....