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Ainda sobre a Trégua do Natal de 1914, segue uma matéria muito interessante do The Telegraph sobre o evento, com destaque para a carta de um jovem soldado britânico que viveu aqueles acontecimentos e o dia-a-dia nas trincheiras.

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How one young soldier’s song inspired the 1914 Christmas Truce

It is a story handed down through the generations – and even Christmas adverts – but here a letter from the trenches tells the true story of the Christmas Truce 100 years ago

By Christopher Middleton

The Telegraph

7:00AM GMT 22 Dec 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11302440/How-one-young-soldiers-song-inspired-the-1914-Christmas-Truce.html

British and German troops meeting in No-Mans’s Land during the unofficial truce on Christmas Day in 1914

Christmas Eve 1914, it’s icy cold, and the battlefields of northern France are, in the words of the soldiers, frozen as hard as iron.

In the British trenches, a young farmer’s son in the Queen’s Westminster regiment, by the name of Edgar Aplin starts up a song. He’s 26, he’s got a good, tenor voice, and after a few verses of Tommy Lad, he hears voices coming from the German trenches, where the 107th Saxon Regiment are dug in, a short distance away.

“Sing it again, Englander,” they call out, in English. “Sing Tommy Lad again.”

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