Like so many families, his was scarred by the "war to end all wars". We asked Michael to go on a journey through the last hours, and tell the sad and shocking stories of the last men to die ...

The story of a soldier who died on the last day of World War One has been told on BBC Radio 5 live. Pte David McKie, from Merseyside, died in Rouen on 11 November 1918. He was 19 years old.

Big Ben had been silenced at the outbreak of war, now at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month ... The dangerous jobs of women in WW1. videoThe dangerous jobs of women ...