Since landing in France for its first fight around Christmas 1914, members of the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry has spent many holidays abroad. Here is a sample of some of their holiday ...

The Bagenalstown man was despatched to France on December 18, 1915, after enlisting in the British Army and doing his training in County Cork, and so he was still a new arrival as he spent ...

It became known as the Christmas Truce. British and German troops in trenches on the Western front in the First World War put down their weapons and walked into No Man's Land to sing Christmas ...

Christmas in the trenches — 100 years ago "25.12.15: Weather mild, some rain, wind SW. Very quiet all day. GOC (General Officer Commanding) 1st Canadian Division and Col. Tuxford visited HQs.

On Christmas Eve 1914, Rifleman Graham Williams, of the 5th London Rifle Brigade, stood out on sentry duty staring out anxiously across the wasteland of no man's land to the German trenches.

By The Newsroom Published 17th Dec 2013, 00:01 GMT Helen Thornton with Christmas Cards from the First World War at York Castle Museum ...

The exquisite silk Christmas cards from WW1 trenches By The Newsroom Published 17th Dec 2013, 00:01 BST Helen Thornton with Christmas Cards from the First World War at York Castle Museum ...