Lions led by donkeys.

"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War: 1914-1917". One of the most quoted lines from that wonderful, wonderful final episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth". But it does bring to mind the question of just what were the dates of the First World War. It's traditionally given as 1914-1918, but dotted here and there throughout the country you will see war memorials inscribed 1914-1919. So what's going on? Well, the fighting stopped at the famous eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, but that was only a cease-fire, or armistice. The countries involved remained officially at war until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Not that it matters a toss to the thousands who were slaughtered - make sure you buy a poppy.