Tell tales of Taita Taveta’s villages that bore first World Warbrunt

World war veterans view items used by British and German soldiers at the Sarova Taita Hills Lodge in Taita Taveta County, recently. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

Exactly a hundred years ago – on the ‘11th hour of the 11th day of the eleventh month’ – in 1918, The Armistice, or an agreement to cease hostilities in World War One, came into effect in Europe, and the guns that had wracked the World during four years of world war fell silent.

It was one minute too late for Henry John Gunther, a 23-year-old American soldier from Baltimore, US, who had been shot dead at 10.59am by a German sniper at the champagne sounding town of Chaumont-devant Damvillers in France – young Henry being the last of the 116,708 American soldiers to die in a conflict that claimed almost 10 million military men.