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After four terrible years the First World War finally came to a close with the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918. Parades were held throughout the country, though the spread of the influenza pandemic and a general war weariness dampened celebrations at home and abroad

Some facts and stats about New Zealand in the year of the First World War armistice

Gore railwaymen celebrated Armistice Day in November 1918 by decorating locomotive F 78 and wagon with wilting greenery, imitation sausages and a blunt chalked message to the Kaiser.

Armistice Day parade in Masterton

Armistice Day parade in Levin, 13 November 1918.

Armistice Day procession along Mawhera Quay, Greymouth, 12 November 1918.

Crowd gathered in Cathedral Square, Christchurch after the Armistice procession on 12 November 1918.

Those suffering from influenza had little interest in celebrating the end of the First World War.