The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
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6th September 2018
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.