By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...
Lt Alexander Pfeifer found the postcard on Pte Percy Walsh, from Blackburn, Lancashire, after the 22-year-old was killed as German forces recaptured a trench ... it to the soldier's family ...
A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War ... bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British soldier. Lt Alexander Pfeifer ...
The following day, having violated the neutrality of Luxembourg, the German ... work rate on trench maintenance. Following the Christmas Day ‘stand to’ at dawn, the soldiers resumed their ...
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Remembering World War I’s Christmas Truce
Like many myths, the original facts regarding the famous truce took lives of their own in the years following World War I.
A new research has found that these spice tins ended up in the hands of German soldiers when the Western Front fell silent as ...
Private Edward Price died of his illnesses just after the war ended A new gravestone has been erected for a World War One soldier who died as a result of the after effects of a gas attack and ...