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Hi All, is anyone able to kindly explain why the First World War(1914 - 1918) Monument seen above and located in Kimberley, Northern Cape has the dates 1914 to 1919? Thanks

The section World_War_I#Formal_end_of_the_war might be able to do that. --Wrongfilter (talk) 11:45, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

[1] says: "the Cenotaph was erected to commemorate the 400 Kimberley men who fell in World War I. It is slightly unusual in that it gives the dates of the War as 1914-1919, even though hostilities ceased 1918." https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/world-war-cenotaph says: "What is unusual about the Cenotaph is its memorial dates - 1914 to 1919. Although the war officially ended on 11 November 1918, the Peace Treaty was signed only in 1919." It may also have been because Kimberley men were still dying into 1919 after the Armistice of 11 November 1918. The Spanish flu may have killed some of them. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:45, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Of course, "officially" is wrong in that passage. It was the treaty that officially ended the war. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 23:46, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

An additional reason may have been the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. See Remembering diggers in the Russian Civil War. BTW, 1914-1919 is quite common on British war memorials, see this for example. Alansplodge (talk) 19:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)