{"id":18430,"date":"2010-11-11T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18430"},"modified":"2010-11-11T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:00:33","slug":"armistice-an-eyewitness-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/11\/armistice-an-eyewitness-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice: An Eyewitness Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/diarycover2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18448\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/diarycover2-1024x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/diarycover2-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/diarycover2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The inside cover of Gordon Agnew&#8217;s diary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is about as moving an eyewitness account from the front on November 11th, 1918 as you&#8217;re likely to come across.\u00a0 It&#8217;s from the diary of Gordon Agnew, a Gunner with the 25th Battery, 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force.\u00a0 After the jump is a beautifully rendered account of that day which very few people before now have had the opportunity to read.\u00a0 The entry for November 11th begins at the bottom of the first page.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18439\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"714\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18440\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"714\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18441\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/nov11c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"714\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of Paul Thompson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inside cover of Gordon Agnew&#8217;s diary Here is about as moving an eyewitness account from the front on November 11th, 1918 as you&#8217;re likely to come across.\u00a0 It&#8217;s from the diary of Gordon Agnew, a Gunner with the 25th Battery, 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force.\u00a0 After the jump is a beautifully rendered account of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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