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WE REMEMBER THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT WAR - WORLD WAR I - CHRISTMAS 1914
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Though there was no official truce, roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in unofficial
cessations of fighting along the length of the Western Front. The first truce started on Christmas Eve, 24
December 1914, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres,
Belgium and particularly in Saint-Yvon, w here C apt. Bruce Bairnsfather described the Truce.
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The Germans began by placing candles on their trenches and on Christmas trees, and then continued the celebration
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back behind their lines by burial parties. Joint services were held. The fraternization carried risks; some soldiers
by singing Christmas carols. The British responded by singing carols of their own. The two sides continued by
shouting Christmas greetings to each other. Soon thereafter, there were excursions across No Man's Land, where
small gifts were exchanged, such as food, tobacco and alcohol, and souvenirs such as buttons and hats. The artillery
in the region fell silent. The truce also allowed a breathing spell where recently killed soldiers could be brought
were shot by opposing forces. In many sectors, the truce lasted through Christmas night, but it continued until
New Year's Day in others.
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Bruce Bairnsfather, who served throughout the war, wrote: "I wouldn't have missed that unique and weird
Christmas Day for anything. ... I spotted a German officer, some sort of lieutenant I should think, and being a bit
of a collector, I intimated to him that I had taken a fancy to some of his buttons. ... I brought out my wire clippers
and, with a few deft snips, removed a couple of his buttons and put them in my pocket. I then gave him two of
mine in exchange. ... The last I saw was one of my machine gunners, who was a bit of an amateur hairdresser in
civil life, cutting the unnaturally long hair of a docile Boche, who was patiently kneeling on the ground whilst
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to his mother on Boxing Day: "Dear Mother, I am writing from the trenches. It is 11 o'clock in the morning. Beside
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Future nature writer Henry Williamson, then a nineteen-year-old private in the London Rifle Brigade, wrote
me is a coke fire, opposite me a 'dug-out' (wet) with straw in it. The ground is sloppy in the actual trench, but
frozen elsewhere. In my mouth is a pipe presented by the Princess Mary. In the pipe is tobacco. Of course, you
say. But wait. In the pipe is German tobacco. Ha-ha, you say, from a prisoner or found in a captured trench. Oh
dear, no! From a German soldier. Yes a live German soldier from his own trench. Yesterday the British & Germans
met & shook hands in the Ground between the trenches, & exchanged souvenirs, & shook hands. Yes, all day
General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of the British II Corps, issued orders forbidding friendly
communication with the opposing German troops. Adolf Hitler, then a young corporal of the 16th Bavarian Reserve
Infantry, was also an opponent of the truce.
Excerpted from WikiPedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
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