The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.
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.
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