Fraternising Collection

Christmas Truce / Photo
British and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day abandoning their respective trenches to exchange gifts, play sports and forget the war for one day

Wwi / Xmas Truce / 1914
English & German troops fraternising on Christmas Day, chasing a hare and playing a football match (the German team won)

All Germans love children, so even these tough soldiers, invading Belgium, find time to fraternise with the kiddies... and fortunately there is a photographer to record it... Date: 1914

It is a little-known fact that the Belgians were delighted when their kindly, amiable neighbours invaded their country, fraternising with them happily... Date: 1914

Christmas truce 1914
British and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day, 1914 during the famous Christmas truce

British soldiers (and two sailors) and locals in Istanbul. Date: 1923

French and British forces in the Dardanelles during WWI
Allied soldiers in Gallipoli during the First World War. Date: 1915

WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian and German soldiers fraternise - Christmas 1917 Date: 1917

Inter-Allied Fraternisation - British and French in Flanders
WW1 - Inter-Allied Fraternisation - The Friends of Today, not the Foes of Waterloo - British and French soldiers fraternising in Flanders. Date: 1915

Two British soldiers chat with millers daughter, WW1
Two British soldiers chat with the local millers daughter on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers in China, c. 1911
A Chinese man in traditional clothes and with a queue pigtail hairstyle talks to a pipe-smoking westerner, with other men in the background

Dutch and Spanish
Spanish soldiers fraternising with Dutch peasants. Like the Germans three centuries later, the occupying forces do their best to ingratiate themselves with the locals. Date: circa 1590

French troops in Cape Town 1860
French troops from the ship La Dryade on their way to China mixing with the locals in Greenmarket Square in front of the city hall, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Date: 1860

Review of the guards returning from the Crimea, Hyde Park
People fraternising with the guards at the review in Hyde Park, London, after their return from the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Bernagousse 1918
French and British troops fraternising and sharing cigarettes in Bernagousse taking over the right of the new line from the French on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1918

Stanley Baldwin & Voters
STANLEY BALDWIN British politician, fraternising with members of the general public who may be induced to give him their votes

Three Germans and a British soldier
A British soldier fraternising with three Germans during a cease-fire on Christmas Day 1914 during World War I

Friendly British and Germans
German and British soldiers fraternising during a Christmas Day cease-fire in 1914 during World War I

Weihnachtszeit
Illustration showing British and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day 1914 during World War I. All soldiers are wearing holly or mistletoe in their hats and helments

Lenin / Red Square / May Day
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman, talking to men in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, while his car waits for him

Allies in Flanders Wwi
Entente Cordiale: British and either French or Belgian soldiers fraternising and relaxing on a canal boat in Flanders during the First World War

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