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Bertie Felstead, RWF, was one of the last survivors of the informal Christmas truces between British and German soldiers during World War I. He died in July 2001 aged 106 years.
He remembered the following:
On Christmas Eve, he was stationed in northern France with his colleagues near the village of Laventie when he heard the Germans in a trench 100 metres away singing “Silent Night”. In reply, the Royal Welch Fusiliers sang “Good King Wenceslas”.
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