We will remember them: Parkes prepares for centenary of the end of World War I on Sunday

By Terry Knowles
Updated November 8 2018 - 7:26pm, first published November 7 2018 - 7:25pm
1916: The Boomerang March, a WWI recruitment march, began at Parkes and came through Forbes, onto Orange. In white are Mr and Mrs Andrew Stewart, Mayor and Mayoress.
1916: The Boomerang March, a WWI recruitment march, began at Parkes and came through Forbes, onto Orange. In white are Mr and Mrs Andrew Stewart, Mayor and Mayoress.

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month 1918, the guns fell silent, the killing stopped and the Armistice that ended the Great War, the “War To End All Wars” or World War I, came into effect.  

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