The editors and moderators of Potluck wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. While we take a couple days off to enjoy the holidays with our families and friends, we remind you of this other occasion when opposing factions ceased hostilities, if only for a short while:
On Christmas Day 1914, the first Christmas of The Great War, an amazing cessation of hostilities took place in some sections of the British front-line. Below is the account of the truce in the Sailly - Armentiers sector manned by George Anderson, George Gordon, William Milne, Alexander Pirie and their comrades of 6th Btn, The Gordon Highlanders.
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