Today: Truce, Tomorrow Business as Usual

Found an poignant item in the archive today, I was asked to accumulate as much from our archives about the Christmas Truce of 1914 for a Battlefield tour guide. Whilst going through a war diary of one of the Regiment's officers I discovered the record of a conversation he had with a German officer in no man's land on Christmas day, the German looked at the proceedings and the friendly gift exchanges and simply remarked:

"Well, it shall be war again tommorrow..."

Clearly there was at least one person whose Christmas spirit wasn't deadening him to realism, sad though that is.