Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 25
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were practically every color imaginable. It was the first Autumn that I had seen in England & I can quite believe now all the lovely tints in the old English pictures. What a day this has been I went over to the D.T.B. to say goodbye to a lot of our lads & then Charlie & I went down to the pictures & there happened the incident that millions of people have been longing & waiting for these 4 long years, a funny picture was being screened when all of a sudden it stopped & the crowd started to go out when an officer jumps on to the stage & sings out wait on boys I have some good news to tell you & he sings out the following, Germany admits defeat, has accepted President Wilson 14 points, & an Armistice starts immediately, well if you could only have heard the shout of joy that went up I shall never never forget it as long as ever I live. Needless to say no one bothered to see the rest of the picture out but out they tumbled cheering &