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An artefact at the Imperial War Museum will show the exact moment that guns fell silent at the end of the First World War.

To mark 100 years since Armistice Day, the museum has revealed a graphic sound document that shows when the ceasefire took place.

The rare document is from the Imperial War Museum’s collection, and features the moment of the Armistice at the River Moselle on the American Front. It records the sound of guns still firing at 10.58am on the November 11 1918, but falling silent by one minute past the hour.

The museum has teamed up with sound designers Coda to Coda to recreate the sounds recorded on the document. Visitors will be able to hear the recording as part of a sound installation now in display at the museum.

The 1918 document had been created using a technique called “sound ranging”, a process which helped the military work out the location of guns by recording the sounds of the battlefield onto photographic paper.

“This document from IWM’s collections gives us a great insight into how intense and chaotic the barrage of gunfire must have been for those fighting on the western front,” said Coda to Coda’s director Will Worsley.

“We hope that our audio interpretation of sound ranging techniques through bone conduction enables visitors to project themselves into that moment in history and gain an understanding of what the end of the First World War may have sounded like.”

For more information, visit iwm.org.uk