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Before Christmas 1914, there were several peace initiatives. The Open Christmas Letter was a public message for peace addressed "To the Women of Germany and Austria", signed by a group of 101 British women's suffragettes at the end of 1914. [2] [3] Pope Benedict XV, on 7 December 1914, had begged for an official truce between the warring ...
"A Soldier's Christmas Letter" is a song performed by British pop singers The Soldiers from their debut studio album Coming Home. It was released on 4 December 2009 serving as the album's second single.
Christmas tales: Soldiers through the ages find solace amid the hardships of war, echoing Bing Crosby's timeless song of longing.
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas ...
But suffice it to say that of 900-some soldiers who marched out of the Great Circle Fairgrounds where they trained as 1862 began, there were no more than 300 of those original troops left by the ...
When Andrew Carroll’s family home in Washington, DC, burned down in 1989, no one was hurt, thank God. A distant cousin, James Carroll Jordan, heard of the conflagration and called to check in ...
On 14 October 1914, George V's 17-year-old daughter, Mary, Princess Royal, launched an appeal to fund a Christmas gift for every member of the armed forces. [4] [5] Shortly before Christmas 1914, advertisements were placed in the British press seeking donations for the "Soldiers and Sailors Christmas fund" and £152,691 was soon raised. [6]
Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion , [ 5 ] and screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival .