Christmas truce

A picture of ww1 having a truce.

The Christmas truce was the widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. The truce happened five months after the war began.^[1]

Christmas Truce Media

A cross, left in Saint-Yves (Saint-Yvon – Ploegsteert; Comines-Warneton in Belgium) in 1999, to commemorate the site of the Christmas Truce. The text reads:"1914 – The Khaki Chums Christmas Truce – 1999 – 85 Years – Lest We Forget".
British and German troops meeting in no man's land during the unofficial truce (British troops from the Northumberland Hussars, 7th Division, Bridoux–Rouge Banc Sector).
This photo is commonly mistaken as taking place during the 1914 Christmas truce. It is actually from 25 December 1915 near Thessaloniki, Greece. It shows British officers playing other ranks of the British 26th Divisional Ammunition Train.^[2]^[3]
British and German troops burying the bodies of those killed in the attack of 18 December.
British and German descendants of Great War veterans.
Football Remembers memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

References

↑ Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 (in en). Time (2014-12-24). Retrieved 2023-05-17.
↑ Imperial War Museum 2022.
↑ Imperial War Museum Caption 2022.

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[1] Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 (in en). Time (2014-12-24). Retrieved 2023-05-17.

[FOOTNOTEImperial_War_Museum2022-2] Imperial War Museum 2022.

[FOOTNOTEImperial_War_Museum_Caption2022-3] Imperial War Museum Caption 2022.

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