10 Facts About Christmas truce

Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914.

The Open Christmas truce Letter was a public message for peace addressed "To the Women of Germany and Austria", signed by a group of 101 British women suffragettes at the end of 1914.

The Christmas truce allowed a breathing spell where recently killed soldiers could be brought back behind their lines by burial parties.

Many accounts of the Christmas truce involve one or more football matches played in no-man's land.

Coverage in Germany was less extensive than that of the British press, while in France, press censorship ensured that the only word that spread of the Christmas truce came from soldiers at the front or first-hand accounts told by wounded men in hospitals.

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Press of neutral Italy published a few articles on the events of the Christmas truce, usually reporting the articles of the foreign press.

Christmas truce was separated from the French troops by a narrow No Man's Land and described the landscape "Strewn with shattered trees, the ground ploughed up by shellfire, a wilderness of earth, tree-roots and tattered uniforms".

Christmas truce founded the German Youth Hostel Association in 1919.

On 24 May 1915, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and troops of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli agreed to a 9-hour Christmas truce to retrieve and bury their dead, during which opposing troops "exchang smiles and cigarettes".

Christmas truce memorial was unveiled in Frelinghien, France, on 11 November 2008.