Truce Collection

Christmas Truce 1914 / Ww1
British and German troops fraternise on the field of battle on Christmas Eve, greeting each other and exchanging goodwill, and are even photographed together

Christmas Truce / 1914 / Ww1
A light of peace in the trenches on Christmas Eve as a German soldier approaches the British lines with a Christmas Tree and small paper lantern

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

Christmas Truce / Soldiers
British and German troops leave their trenches on New Years Day to fraternise in peace in No Mans Land

Christmas truce WWI
British and German soldiers meeting in No Mans land during an unoffical truce at Christmas. British troops included the Northumberland Hussars

Christmas Day 1914
Fraternisation between German and English soldiers on Christmas Day 1914 on the Western Front in France during World War I

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

The Graphic, 23rd January 1915, Christmas truce
Page from The Graphic, 23rd January 1915 - the Power of Peace in the Time of War. The Christmas 1914 truce, and a crucifix in a shell-torn area of war. Date: 23rd January 1915

Christmas Truce 1914
British and German officers pictured in No Mans Land on the Western Front during the unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 which saw both sides fraternising at various points along the line

Gifts from Germans following the Christmas truce, WW1
British non-commissioned officers pose with gifts and souvenirs given to them by Germans after the informal truce which took place at certain points along the Western Front in December 1914

Khaki Chums Christmas Truce Cross, St Yvon, Belgium
At Christmas 1914, over the 24th/25th December, a truce was held here between the 1st Battalion the Warwickshire Regiment and the 7th Bavarians in which Bruce Bairnsfaher took part

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

Unveiling the Christmas Truce Memorial, Frelinghien
The most fully documented Christmas Truce story of 1914 took place between the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Saxon 133rd Infantry Regiment plus the Prussian 6th Jager Battalion at Frelinghien

The Serbo-Bulgarian War Winds Down
Scenes from the ending of the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Serbian families and soldiers read from a list of casualties in Belgrade, and Count Khievenhuller, Austrian diplomatic resident at Belgrade

FRENCH ATTACK ACRE 1162
Between the 2nd/3rd Crusades a truce exists between Crusaders and Saracens, but a quarrel leads to an attack on Acre by Amaury I, king of Jerusalem, who dies fighting in 1173 Date: 1162

Detail of the RWF Christmas Truce Plaque, Frelinghien
The plaque is on the memorial plinth unveiled by the daughter of Frank Richards in 2008. There are also plaques to the German 6th Jaeger Battalion and the 133rd Saxon Infantry Regiment

General Sir Nevil Macready was welcomed when he arrived at the Mansion House, Dublin, to take part in the Conference at which the Irish Truce was arranged. Date: 1921

Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, Messines
The memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914

WW1 - German and Russian troops meet over the barbed wire - July 1917 Date: 1917

Christmas Truce by Bruce Bairnsfather
A memory of Christmas, 1914: " Look at this blokes buttons, arry. I should reckon e as a maid to dress im." A picture by the famous wartime Bystander cartoonist and creator of Old Bill

A Thanksgiving truce. Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt, wearing his rough rider uniform, sharing a feast with many wild animals sitting around a large banquet table in the wilderness

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

Florence Upton playing cards - Flag of Truce. circa 1900s

Crimean War, Russian soldiers at Hango
Crimean War -- Russian soldiers at Hango, firing on the crew members of an English boat, despite the fact that they are holding up a flag of truce. 1855

Libro Verde of Barcelona. Peace and Truce Assembly, held in
Libro Verde of Barcelona. Codex containing the privileges of the city of Barcelona (14th century). Peace and Truce Assembly

Britannia & Erin 1812
A rather optimistic allegory of Erin (Ireland) making friends and shaking hands with Britannia (Britain). Date: 1812

International Law - The Better Way by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly, 14th November 1874. A boat called The Arbitrator carrying the flag of truce lands in Geneva

Germans demand surrender of Reims, 1914
How the surrender of Reims was demanded. Immediately before the bombardment of Reims, German parlementaires came into the town under a flag of truce to demand its immediate surrender

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

The Truce Collapses
Satire on the collapse of the never-very-solid truce with Spain. Date: 1665

Ending the Truce
When the 12-year truce ends, the Dutch lion is aoproached by Petrus Peccius, chancellor of Brabant, offering olive branch or sword, watched by pope and king of Spain. Date: 1621

12-YEAR TRUCE - 2
Outside the Stathuys (town hall) The populace of Antwerp celebrate the signing of the truce between Austria and the Netherlands with burning barrels of pitch. Date: 9 April 1609

12-YEAR TRUCE - 1
Despite the reluctance of Felipe III of Spain, a 12-year truce is agreed at Den Haag between Austria and the Netherlands. Date: 9 April 1609

Truce Negotiations
Truce negotiations between Spain and the Netherlands are conducted by Jan Neyen, Franciscan confessor of arch- duke Albrecht, Oldenbarneveldt and Mauritz van Nassau. Date: 13 March 1607

Christmas Day 1914
Fraternisation between German and English soldiers on Christmas Day 1914 in Ploegsteert on the Western Front in France during World War I

Shooting Match between Rival Trenches 1914
An Anglo-German Bisley at the front. A Shooting test between British soldiers in their trench and German troops in the trench opposite

Civil War in America: arrival of a Federal steamer
Arrival of a Federal steamer, with flag of truce at Madisonville, Lake Portchartrain. The scene shows men, women, children and black servants with boxes and travelling bags waiting for the steamer

TRUCE OF 1609
The Dutch celebrate the truce of Antwerp with Spain, which effectively terminated the war and secured the independence of the Netherlands

Truce Proclaimed 1392
The proclamation of the truce between Richard II, of England and Charles VI of France

Peace of Amiens, 1802
The PEACE OF AMIENS is proclaimed at the Royal Exchange, bringing hostilities with France to a short-lived truce

Henry & Stephen Confer
Stephen agrees truce with Henry of Anjou at Crowmarsh

Franco-Prussian Xmas
THE CHILDRENs TRUCE During the Franco-Prussian War, Germans set up a Christmas tree in occupied France, to the admiration of the village children

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