After the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918 the job started in earnest to ‘win the peace’; key to this was the battle for public health and better living conditions.   The country had been shocked at the physical health of the population as men were increasingly called up and then conscripted to the Forces.  Poor living conditions, disease and malnourished had taken their toll, and men had to be built up to fighting fitness during their initial training – some never made it passed this stage and have their own commemorations on war memorials.

On 16th December 1918, less than a month after the Armistice, the country held a General Election.   This was the first election that many of the fighting men over 21 could actually vote in, as well as the first for women at all.  The victory went to a coalition of Lloyd Continue reading →