The signing of the Armistice in Allied Commander General Foch's railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne at 5am on Monday 11 November 1918 brought an end to what was then known as The Great War. The cease fire came into effect six hours later - 'the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month' - when silence fell across the battlefields of northern France and Flanders for the first time in over four years.
The 2018 World War I Prestige Booklet contains a unique pane of eight definitive stamps, all the stamps from the stamp issues and a pane of four war poetry commemoratives 2014-2017.
The BLCS set carries contemporary images of the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918 and three of the final battles as the German army was driven back across its borders.
Features the Battle of St Quentin and carries a The Cenotaph, London SW1 handstamp.
