An excerpt from Howard Palmer’s typed up memories of the First World War
Thoughts on the Armistice…
This is not so much a letter from me, as one directly from my great-uncle, who wrote his memoirs and speaks to us across 100 years of history. Great-uncle, Howard Palmer, was in Brighton on embarkation leave when the Armistice was declared in November 1918. As a gunner, he could recognise the rumbles from across the Channel – so he ‘heard’ the guns go silent! He wrote down his thoughts that day and they make profound reading.