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- 28 September 1918 - 31 December 1918 (Creation)
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37 letters, paper
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January – George was best man at the wedding of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson.
Easter – attended the wedding of Geoffrey Winthrop Young and Eleanor Slingsby.
End July – George and Ruth spent a week in Skye with David Pye and Leslie Shadbolt.
September – training in Newcastle accompanied by Ruth.
End of September – returned to France. Assigned to the 515th Siege Battery positioned between Arras and the Channel coast.
Commanding officer was Major Gwilym Lloyd George (son of the British Prime Minister). Fighting was further to the south.
10 November – George was with Geoffrey Keynes who was with a unit near Cambrai when they heard shouts about an Armistice late at night.
He spent Armistice Day with his brother Trafford (who had trained as a pilot after being invalided home in 1915, joined the Royal Flying Corps, and by the end of the war was a Royal Air Force squadron commander).
He spent a week in Paris and Christmas with his men. Then rented a room in Calais waiting to be demobilised.
Returned home in the second week of January 1919.