Christmas Truce by Frederic Villiers, Frederic Villiers, 9 January 1915

A depiction of the 1914 christmas truce published on the front page of the illustrated london news on 9 january 1915. The original caption was "the light of peace in the trenches on christmas eve: a german soldier opens the spontaneous truce by approaching the british lines with a small christmas tree. ". Date: 9 January 1915.