'Everyman's Land': the Second Christmas Truce, 1915. (1st December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Riley, Jonathon
• Is Part Of: Welsh history review. Volume 28:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 711
• Page End: 722
• Publication Date: 2017-12-01
• Subjects: Wales -- History -- Periodicals; Histoire -- Périodiques; Wales; History; Periodicals; 942.9005
• DOI: 10.16922/whr.28.4.5
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0043-2431

Abstract

Much has been written about the Christmas Truce of 1914, which was well covered by the press at the time; however, a second truce which occurred in December 1915, and which involved a Welsh battalion, was suppressed. Word of it began to surface in the early 1930s but it is only in the last few years, and during 2014 in particular, that a detailed account has emerged.