The Armistice

which most closely affected my Grandfather, Major R C Lowndes MC, was that of Mudros, where the Ottoman Empire surrendered on HMS Agamemnon (the Trojans weren't a fan) to the British Empire in the person of Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe. 

By then 'Spanish Grippe' was killing off the survivors of the three months of forced march after the surrender of the 6th (Poona) Division of the Indian Army to the Turks at Kut-al-Amara. They had travelled over 1800km to Kastamonu in northern Turkey. Almost all the entries in his Diary for October 1918 are lists of deaths. He had a temperature of over 105 F on the 7th, but was back up the next day "running at the nose" and taking the temperatures of others on the 9th. 

By 1st December he had arrived in Istanbul and stayed at the Pera Palace hotel "... at £T per diem. Padre Matthews and Murphy here. Gave Thomas to HM Drifter Lively. First motor drive! Most wonderful females." 

I think that counts as a happy ending to those years. 

In the Second War he was an Air Raid Warden on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford. Later he grew a long white beard. He died in 1960.