Remember Plugstreet Christmas Truce
On Christmas 1914, on 4 points of the Western front, on the border between France and Belgium, an amazing, unique event happened. A truce was agreed between belligerants. They first wanted to collect and bury their dead....
Two of this Christmas Truce were in Ploegsteert (Comines-Warneton in Wallonia) better known in Britain as Plugstreet- one in Le Touquet and the éther in St-Yves.
This video tell the story of this truce as narrated by the German Lt Zemisch and by the British Lt Bruce Bairnsfather.
It also invites to join the commemoration of this fascinating fact on 11 December 2014 when UEFA will inaugurate her first monument ever and from 19 to 21 December 2014 when St-Yves will be a site where History will be relived.
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Roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in the unofficial cessations of hostility along the Western Front.[15] The first truce started on Christmas Eve 1914, when German troops decorated the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium and particularly in Saint-Yvon (called Saint-Yves, in Plugstreet/Ploegsteert – Comines-Warneton), where Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather described the truce.[16]
The Germans placed candles on their trenches and on Christmas trees, then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols. The British responded by singing carols of their own. The two sides continued by shouting Christmas greetings to each other. Soon thereafter, there were excursions across No Man's Land, where small gifts were exchanged, such as food, tobacco and alcohol, and souvenirs such as buttons and hats. The artillery in the region fell silent. The truce also allowed a breathing spell where recently killed soldiers could be brought back behind their lines by burial parties. Joint services were held. The fraternisation carried risks; some soldiers were shot by opposing forces.[citation needed] In many sectors, the truce lasted through Christmas night, continuing until New Year's Day in others.
Marry Christmas
- Denkt an sie, denn wer tut es sonst!
Monument de l' UEFA pour les 100 ans de la Christmas Truce, Plugstreet
Au lieu dit St-Yvon, près de Ploegsteert (Comines-Warneton), Michel Platini inaugure un Monument, dans la cadre de la Fraternisation.
Treve de Noel - Comines Warneton - Ploegstreet - UEFA - 11 Décembre 2014
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The commemorations mark the launch of a programme in the municipality of Comines-Warneton, which includes Ploegsteert and St. Yves, aimed at keeping the memory of the truce alive beyond the Centenary.
A Heritage Committee has been formed, backed by organisations including the International Olympic Committee. Historical research into the Christmas truce is due to be published in 2015, and there are also plans for annual symposiums, starting in December 2015.
Source: Belgian Tourist Office - Brussels & Wallonia
Plugstreet Christmas Truce
Plugstreet Christmas Truce
à Ploegsteert, Belgique
Decembre 2014
Musique : I'm dreaming of home
Treve de Noel - Ploegstreet - Comines Warneton - 20/21 Décembre 2014
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WW1 Christmas Truce Press Conference with UEFA in London on 12 November 2014
At a press conference organised on 12 November 2014 at Chelsea Football Club by the London office of the Belgian Tourist Office-Brussels & Wallonia in the presence of the Football Association, UEFA revealed some of the reasons behind its decision to pay a special tribute to the Great War on 11 December 2014 at St Yves in Comines-Warneton.
Community Trust Make Christmas Truce Visit
Young people from the club's Community Trust took part in the Premier League Christmas Truce tournament in Ypres, Belgium.
Canadian troops walk in a muddy area and carry boxes in trenches in Ploegsteert, ...HD Stock Footage
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Canadian troops walk in a muddy area and carry boxes in trenches in Ploegsteert, Belgium during World War I.
Canadian troops in Belgium. An animated map shows Ploegsteert in Belgium. The troops walk in a muddy area. They walk in trenches with their rifles. The soldiers eat food and carry boxes in hands. A water stream next to the trench area. Location: Ploegsteert Belgium. Date: 1917.
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Saint-Yvon - Ploegsteert - 19 déc. 2015 (HD)
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Commémorations du 101e anniversaire des fraternisations de la Noël 1914...
Mode HD, via la molette, au bas-droit de la lucarne...
Wooden cross memorial at scene of WW1...
A wooden cross surrounded by footballs marks the field at Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, where British and German soldiers played football during the World War One Christmas Day truce in 1914
A wooden cross surrounded by footballs marks the field at Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, where British and German soldiers played football during the World War One Christmas Day truce in 1914
A wooden cross surrounded by footballs marks the field at Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, where British and German soldiers played football during the World War One Christmas Day truce in 1914
Wooden cross memorial at scene of WW1...
Wooden cross memorial at scene of WW1...
Wooden cross memorial at scene of WW1...
British Memorial of Plugstreet, viewed in 3D
Voici le prestigieux Mémorial de Ploegsteert (B), construit en 1931, photographié en 2013 par le procédé anaglyphe, ce qui permet de l'admirer en relief 3D, à l'aide de lunettes 3D : filtre rouge à l'oeil gauche, filtre bleu devant l'oeil droit.
Pour mieux commémorer le sacrifice des Britanniques, tombés sur Western Front, durant la guerre 1914-18.... Le début d'un désastre dont la ville de Comines-Warneton prépare activement le 100e anniversaire.
Ploegsteert décembre 2013 Breaking News
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On se retrouve pour cette vidéo a Ploegsteert .... que dire de plus, tout est dans la vidéo. Bon visionnage.
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WW1 Christmas Truce - Hertfordshire Regiment
A short video looking at the location and experiences of the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment on Christmas Day 1914
Inauguration du monument commémoratif de la « trêve de Noël »
Jean-Marc Todeschini, secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre de la Défense, chargé des Anciens Combattants et de la Mémoire, a inauguré, jeudi 11 décembre 2014 à Comines-Warneton en Belgique, le monument commémoratif de la « trêve de Noël ». Il était accompagné de Michel Platini, président de l’Union des associations européennes de football (UEFA) et de hautes autorités belges. Il y a cent ans, en ce lieu-dit, des soldats anglais et allemands avaient organisé, entre leurs tranchées respectives, un match de football à l’occasion de Noël, scellant ainsi l’une des trêves les plus marquantes et symboliques de la Première Guerre mondiale. En mémoire de cette « petite paix dans la Grande Guerre », un Christmas Truce monument sera inauguré et un timbre commémoratif sera lancé.
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Ploegsteert Wood Cemetery 1914 - 1918
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Last Post in Plugstreet, 11-11-2011
The Last Post Ceremony in Ploegsteert (Belgium) Western Front 1914-1918, mmj273,
Christmas truce | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:01 1 Background
00:05:21 2 Fraternisation
00:09:12 3 Christmas 1914
00:20:47 3.1 Football matches
00:24:42 3.2 Eastern Front
00:25:15 4 Public awareness
00:28:01 5 Later truces
00:31:57 6 Legacy and historical significance
00:40:25 6.1 Monuments
00:41:31 6.2 Annual re-enactments
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The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914.
The Christmas truce occurred during the relatively early period of the war (month 5 of 51). Hostilities had entered somewhat of a lull as leadership on both sides reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the Race to the Sea and the indecisive result of the First Battle of Ypres. In the week leading up to the 25th, French, German, and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In some areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most memorable images of the truce. Peaceful behaviour was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies.
The following year, a few units arranged ceasefires but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting truces. Soldiers were no longer amenable to truce by 1916. The war had become increasingly bitter after devastating human losses suffered during the battles of the Somme and Verdun, and the use of poison gas.
The truces were not unique to the Christmas period, and reflected a mood of live and let live, where infantry close together would stop overtly aggressive behaviour and often engage in small-scale fraternisation, engaging in conversation or bartering for cigarettes. In some sectors, there would be occasional ceasefires to allow soldiers to go between the lines and recover wounded or dead comrades, while in others, there would be a tacit agreement not to shoot while men rested, exercised or worked in full view of the enemy. The Christmas truces were particularly significant due to the number of men involved and the level of their participation—even in very peaceful sectors, dozens of men openly congregating in daylight was remarkable—and are often seen as a symbolic moment of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of human history.