Diary December 24, 1914

12-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

Christmas truce 1914 — British and German soldiers fraternized in the middle of no-man’s land around Ypres in Belgium during the 1914 Christmas truce. It continued for up to a week until the military authorities ordered it to be stamped out.

War Diary World War One for Thursday, December 24, 1914:

Western Front

Champagne: French 33rd Infantry Division clears Bois des Moutons with bayonet.
Flanders: ’CHRISTMAS TRUCE‘ (unofficial). Sniffily dismissed by British War Office as the ‘Fraternization episode’
Meuse: French gains at Consenvoye.

Eastern Front

Hungary: Reported Romanian rising in Transylvania.

Middle East

Armenia: Myshlayeyski and Yudenich from Tiflis reach Bergmann’s HQ on frontier. Enver reaches Bardiz inside Russian frontier with 29th Division; 17th Division has 40% stragglers.

Politics

Britain: Government recognizes French Morocco Protectorate.

Home Fronts

Russia: 1915 conscripts called up.
Germany: XXXIX-XLI Reserve Corps formed.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.