"I died in Hell - they called it Passchendaele" - Siegfried Sassoon
"Every intelligent person in the world knew that disaster was impending and knew no way to avoid it" - H. G. Wells
The International Red Cross has been involved in over 120 armed conflicts since the "war to end all wars".
The last soldier to be killed in World War I was Canadian Private George Lawrence Price; he died two minutes before a ceasefire effectively ended the war on 11 November 1918.
Lest we forget
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
- Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)