Wilfred Owen

The 17th century poet laureate, , once wrote: "Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few." It was a cautionary couplet on the principle of majority rule.

99 years ago today, an armistice was signed between Britain and Germany.

In the First World War records of the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment of the Imperial German Army, there's a lonely paragraph which stands out from the pages and pages of battle reports and casualty statistics.