Arthur Currie knew about the signing of the Armistice by 6 am but still ordered soldiers into combat to take Mons.He was called a butcher by Sam Hughes.
Pershing also got into some bother for actually admitting that he disagreed with the Armistice needlessly causing loads of US casualties in the order to keep fighting.
At 2 minutes to 11am I stopped for a few minutes. Both my grandfathers served in “the Great War”, my maternal Grandfather (“Ernie” Fisher) was at Ypres (“wipers”) with the East Surreys.
My brother Sandy, I was 9 years old and remember my parents getting a telegram Missing in Action then some weeks later the KIA telegram broke my mother’s heart, a direct mortar hit on the banks of the River Orne at Sallenelles DD+1. I still have the telegrams and all his letters home from the time he joined the Scots Guards aged 17.
Oily
Did he do his basic at Kingston barracks ?.
There’s a great memorial for the East Surreys in All Saints Church Kingston where England was actually brought into existence by Aethalstan.
I think my Dad and Uncle did their basic training there too under their brother in law of all things.They lived very close to the barracks in Elm Road.My uncle was invalided out before even completing it by a severe injury in training.
I think my Dad said he was then sent to Catterick to complete his REME training and induction and then shipped out to Italy with the 8th Army.
He lost an old mentor who’d survived from North Africa to VE day to a Yugoslav anti tank mine which he ran over with a Diamond T in the argument over Istria.
That together with all the other sights which the tank recovery and repair men saw and had to deal with and never talked about in detail
Pirbright and Caterham Scots Guards and Achnacarry Commando Training Centre No3 Commando.
Years ago I did one of those ancestry(dot)com things (I saved the results to a hard drive that gave up the ghost). The short story is that chasing that branch of the Fisher family didn’t get me very far, but I know they lived in East Sheen.
My missus did that ancestry.com thing a few years ago & apparently I’m married to a Swedish chick. 
Does she know? The Swedish chick, obviously you missus found out. 
LOL I call her that when she’s not in earshot, or it would be more than my life’s worth.
This is a photo of her sat in my mate’s 1970s Pontiac Bonneville or Grandville in the late 1980s, we were on our way to the Rock & Roll weekend at Hemsby, I can’t remember now what model it was as he changed the interior for a white Cadillac interior & sprayed it pink so we used to take the pish out of him & called it a Pontillac.
Hero! :-)) 