The Historic Christmas Truce of 1914, by Capt Sir Edward Hulse Bt | 25 December 1914 | Episode 53
Published on 25 December 1914
Despite the bitter fighting which had been going on for over four months, a remarkable truce (then called an armistice) was observed in many sectors on Christmas Day 1914, and English and German soldiers ceased killing each other for one day and fraternized in a most genuine manner. In the following episode a Captain of the Scots Guards describes the extraordinary scenes enacted between the lines during this highly unofficial truce. The author held a regular commission in the Scots Guards in I914 — he was killed in action, France, March 12, 1915, aged 25.