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The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.
"Christmas in the Trenches" is a ballad from John McCutcheon's 1984 album Winter Solstice. It tells the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce between the British and German lines on the Western Front during the Great War from the perspective of a fictional British soldier. Although Francis Tolliver is a fictional character, the event depicted in ...
List of Canadian battles during the First World War on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada. The Western Front comprised the fractious borders between France, Germany, and the neighboring countries. It was infamous for the nature of the fight that developed there; after almost a full year of inconclusive ...
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...
Western: First Battle of Champagne: December 22 Western: Fighting begins at Noyon. December 22, 1914 – January 17, 1915 Middle Eastern, Caucasian: The Russians win the Battle of Sarikamish, Caucasia. [43] December 24 – 26 Western: In some sectors of the Western Front, an unofficial Christmas truce is observed between German and British ...
Battle of Savy-Dallon; First Battle of the Scarpe; Second Battle of the Scarpe; Third Battle of the Scarpe; Battle of the Scarpe (1918) Second Battle of Mons; Battle of Seicheprey; Battle of the Selle; Battle of the Serre; Battle of Soissons (1918) Battle of the Somme order of battle; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme ...
Private George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War.He died at 09:30 am (90 minutes before the armistice came into effect), shot by a sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.
The Allied breakthroughs (north, center, and east) across the length of the front line in September and October 1918 – including the Battle of the Argonne Forest – are now lumped together as part of what is generally remembered as the Grand Offensive (also known as the Hundred Days Offensive) by the Allies on the Western Front. The Meuse ...