The war had become ... was unaffected by the truce, as was most of Smith-Dorrien's II Corps. The truce lasted for a varying amount of time. In some areas it was just Christmas Eve or Christmas ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: (from the program notes) “The Western Front… Christmas 1914 ... who also provides us with the unsettling sounds of war. The fine period costumes are by Kari Drozd.

2. Introduction Display the image of World War 1 soldiers ... Ask: 'What can we learn today from the Christmas Truce?' [Guide the children's responses towards the idea that the Christmas story ...

Crucially, there was no truce in 1915. By 1916, poison gas was being used on European battlefields. By Christmas in 1918, over 16 million people had been killed in World War I. The most important ...

At Christmas 1914, the fighting stopped on the battlefields of the First World War ... the Imperial War Museum. Image: British and German troops make a Christmas and New Year truce at the Western ...