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Canadian armoured cars passing Saluting Base. [Mons, Belgium]

1918-11

Canadian Centre for the Great War

Canadian Centre for the Great War
Montreal, Canada

By November 11, the Canadian Corps had reached Mons, Belgium. “On November 11th there was naturally a big celebration in Mons, including a march past, but some of our men who were then over three miles past Mons did not know that the war was actually over at 11 o’clock until a German official car came through to arrange the take-over by the British.” Source: Quoted in Ellis, W.D., and J. Gordon Beatty. Saga of the Cyclists in the Great War, 1914–1918. Toronto: Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion Association, 1965.

Details

  • Title: Canadian armoured cars passing Saluting Base. [Mons, Belgium]
  • Date Created: 1918-11
  • Rights: Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada (2017). LAC/Ministry of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada fonds/e001131472

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