Christmas Truce by Bruce Bairnsfather
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
Picture No
14103401
Media ID
47136786
Size
3600px x 5422px
(1.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather in Bullets and Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1916
Date
1916
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