Like hundreds of others along Western Front, Trebuchon was killed in combat on the morning of Nov 11 — after the agreement between Allies and Germany and before the armistice took effect six hours later.. ..…

Hundreds of thousands from all corners of the world died in Europe, many of them on the Western Front reaching from Belgium’s Flanders Fields almost up to the Swiss border. . Carrying the heritage of defeated Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel will be visiting the site in the woods north of..…

On November 11, 1918, Allies and Germany signed the Armistice that ended the remaining fighting on Western Front. Germany had been crushed at that point, President Wilson had taken the country to war with boldly ambitious set of security and diplomatic aims. ..…

The war nearly destroyed Belgium and France, where most of the fighting on the Western Front took place. The Treaty of Versailles ravaged Germany, enraged the German people, led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and to the coming of the Second World War. ..…