Fascinating WW1 Veterans Interviews at Flanders House, Glasgow | Great War Memories | Armistice Day

Two Great War veterans return to Flanders to recount their experience of the Christmas Truce of 1914. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1914, along the Western Front in Flanders, Belgium, an extraordinary pause in the Great War unfolded. As night fell, German and British soldiers cautiously emerged from their trenches, drawn by the sound of carols drifting across no man’s land. They exchanged greetings, shared rations, cigarettes, and laughter beneath flickering candles. After 1914, the High C

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A Song That Never Left the Battlefield Great War Veterans return to the Western Front in 1965, and belt out a chorus of the old marching song ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile.’ It was written in 1915 by brothers George Henry Powell (under the pen name George Asaf, who wrote the lyrics) and Felix Powell, who composed the music. The song became one of the most popular and morale-boosting tunes among soldiers, often sung on the march or in the trenches to keep spi