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The WW1 Christmas Truce: ‘We were joking with our enemies’

One page of the album features a fragment of a white German surrender flag.

Sgt Jones of the 1/5 Kings Liverpool Regiment wrote: “A piece of a German white flag…The flag was taken from a prisoner who surrendered with 120 more at Festubert [France] on May 17, 1915 to the British”.

The album also underlines that lives were lost away from the trenches.

On 17 November, 1915, the ship Anglia, carrying 390 injured soldiers from Calais to Dover, struck a mine. It sank in 15 minutes and 134 men died.

An account by C Gordon, 9th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, describes the chaos.

“All the life boats were full of men, the men from below.

“No one seemed to give any instructions. No one seemed to know what to do.

“The ship’s crew were not to be seen anywhere. The men in the lifeboats didn’t know how to lower the boats,” he said.


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