The Australian War Memorial has made available online some eyewitness accounts of the end of World War I, after the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

Australian War Memorial head of research Robyn Van Dyk told Simon Beaumont on 6PR Mornings that the mood of those writing in the diaries differed, depending on where they were at the time.

“One of the diaries I looked at… describes London and the intoxication of the people there, that ‘London has gone mad and I am intoxicated with joy, my leave is long up but I can’t leave London yet, it is all a blaze of light, women have never been so free, I have been mobbed and kissed and hugged to death, the happiest day I’ve had in years’,” she said of one account available online.

Tap PLAY to hear Robyn detail more diary entries, which can be viewed here