Signed at 5 a.m. on 11 November 1918, the Armistice took effect at 11. Men died to the end: Price at 10:58, Gunther at 10:59.
German delegates led by Matthias Erzberger reach Foch's railway carriage. They get the Allied terms and 72 hours to accept. Foch refuses a ceasefire during talks.
Prince Max of Baden announces the Kaiser's abdication and a republic is proclaimed. Wilhelm II crosses into the Netherlands the next day.
Foch, Admiral Wemyss and four German delegates sign at about 5 a.m. on 11 November 1918. The ceasefire is set for 11:00 a.m. Paris time.
Orders had to pass down every army, division and battalion on a 700 km front. US envoy Edward House cables Wilson at 6 a.m.: hostilities to cease at 11.
Private George Ellison of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers is shot by a sniper near Mons, where he had fought in 1914.
A runner of the 415th Infantry, carrying a message about lunch, is shot on the Meuse. The army later recorded his death as 10 November.
Private George Lawrence Price of the 28th Battalion is shot by a sniper near Mons, two minutes before the ceasefire.
Henry Gunther of the 313th Infantry charges a German machine gun. The Germans try to wave him back, then fire. One minute remains.
The Armistice takes effect. An estimated 10,944 men became casualties that day, 2,738 of them killed, by historian Joseph Persico's count.
On 11 November 1919 King George V asks for two minutes' silence at 11 a.m. The US renamed Armistice Day as Veterans Day in 1954.
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