The Story of the Christmas Truce
Narrated by Martin Jarvis Seventy years ago, on Christmas Eve, 1914, on the Western Front, British and German soldiers sang carols to each other across a frosty, moonlit No Man's
Land. The next morning, on Christmas Day, hundreds of men of both nations emerged from the trenches to talk, joke, take photographs and exchange souvenirs in the most famous fraternisation of the First World War.
This remarkable event is remembered by three soldiers who took part:
Graham Williams , then a rifleman of the London Rifle Brigade; Leslie Walkinton , then a rifleman of the Queen's Westminsters, and Albert Moren , former private of the Queen's Regiment.
And another truce of that war, on another front, is recalled by Dr Friedrich Kohn , former medical officer attached to the Hungarian Army.
Research SHIRLEY SEATON
Produced by MALCOLM BROWN