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An American soldier, Henry Gunther, was the last casualty in World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11 a.m.
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Private John Parr was the first British soldier to die in World War 1. Almost a million more Brits died, and the last was Private George Edwin Ellison, just 90 minutes before the Armistice in 1918. In an unplanned coincidence, their graves face each other just 15ft apart at the same cemetery
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Henry Gunther, the last soldier killed in WW1, only 1 minute before the 1918 Armistice, had been busted from sergeant to private earlier because he had written a letter critical of Army life. After his death, the Army restored his rank and awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross.
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The Western Front suffered 10,944 casualties in the nearly six hours between the time the armistice was signed (5:10 a.m.) and 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, the agreed-upon hour of cease-fire. With Henry Gunther of Baltimore dieing at one minute before the armistice
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George Lawrence Price is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War. He died just 2 minutes before the armistice ceasefire that ended the war.
