Picture No 10910314 Date 1916 Description Christmas Truce by Bruce Bairnsfather Details A memory of Christmas, 1914: "Look at this bloke's 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, Bruce Bairnsfather which drew from personal experience. Bairnsfather took part in the Christmas truce on Christmas Day 1914 and swapped buttons with a German officer, afterwards regretting that he had neglected to find a way to get hold of a photograph taken by the German. Source Illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather in Bullets and Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1916 Credit Line Mary Evans Picture Library