Shortly after 8 am on 11\nNovember 1918, army telegraphist George Thomas was one of the first New\nZealanders to learn that after four long years, the war was at an end.<\/p>
An Armistice with\nGermany had been signed at 5.20 am that morning. Thomas took down the telegraph\nmessage, sent in Morse code, at his New Zealand Division signal station in\nnorthern France. He wrote it out in pencil, and when he was interviewed for\nradio some 50 years later in the 1960s, proudly showed the interviewer the\noriginal pencil and message form, which he had kept.<\/p>"); $('.summaryWrap').removeClass('mi'); $('.summaryWrap').addClass('en'); $('.language a.maori').removeClass('active'); $('.language a.english').addClass('active'); $('.js-year').html("Year:"); $('.js-location').html("Location:"); $('.js-location-name').html('France'); }