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2RHPZ
12-20-2005, 05:34 PM
1914: the same regiments and a very famous truce

By Mary Braid
Published: 18 December 2005


"I grabbed my binoculars and looking cautiously over the parapet saw the incredible sight of our soldiers exchanging cigarettes, schnapps and chocolate with the enemy," he wrote. "Later a Scottish soldier appeared with a football which seemed to come from nowhere and a few minutes later a real match got under way."

Years later, Corporal John Ferguson of the Seaforths also recalled the event with a sense of wonder and incredulity.

"What a sight - little groups of Germans and British extending along the length of our front," he said. "Where they couldn't talk the language, they made themselves understood by signs, and everyone seemed to be getting on nicely. Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours before we were trying to kill."

Independent (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article333844.ece)

foxtrot023
12-20-2005, 06:04 PM
-Of all of man endeavours, war is the strangest-

I have read somewhere that Monte Cassino had a similar truce (not a Christmas one, but a truce when several monks were leaving the monastery).

Anyway good story.