On December 24, 1914, in the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly swept across areas of ...

By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...

"Boxing Day will always have a special meaning from now on and Remembrance Day is going to be a lot more significant in our ...

Both parties returned to their respective trenches at 1 pm and enjoyed a peaceful Christmas ... After the Second World War in the 50s and 60s, My grandparent’s cottage in Drumconrath was well ...

Practice trenches from the First World War, a "bungalow maternity ward" and ... rare” 17th century tombs in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, with one of them commemorating a woman named Mary Ellis, who ...

On Christmas day, German soldiers emerged from their muddy hell holes waving their arms, showing the Allied Forces that they ...

On Dec. 24, 1914, during World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers. War had begun in August, so this was the first ...

Below are 17 of the most unusual and surprising entries - Browndown First World War Practice Trenches, Gosport (Scheduled Monument) The outbreak of war in 1914 prompted one of the biggest ...