WORLD WAR I - THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 RECREATED - When Germans and British soldiers played football together in France

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From the trenches to the beach: The poignant moment that two warring countries united over an impromptu football match is recreated in Teesside to commemorate the Great War. 

The football match spontaneously broke out in No Man's Land in Flanders, France on Christmas Day 1914

It signalled a truce along the Western Front, as British and German soldier lay down their weapons for one day only

After that, the war continued for four years, claiming more than ten millions lives

Now that historic game has been recreated on Saltburn beach, Teesside, to commemorate the Great War 

The two teams dressed up in vintage army uniforms and played the game, which ended up with a 5-2 win to the 'British' side.   There was also a field of 8,000 poppies laid to create a temporary 'war cemetery' in tribute to the fallen. A Tiger Moth plane also flew overhead, scattering 40,000 poppy petals onto the crowds below.

The 1914 game was one of many unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914 during that war.   The truce began after a German messenger walked across No Man's Land on Christmas Eve to broker the temporary ceasefire.

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