The first crowds gather at Buckingham palace in London for Armistice Day 11 November 1918 to commemorate the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compi?gne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire..