The Last Survivor of the Christmas Truce has Died.

Posted by Ken, November 21st, 2005 in General
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The last known survivor of the event memorialized in John McCutcheon’s song “Christmas in the Trenches” has died. Alfred Anderson, the last known survivor of the 1914 “Christmas Truce” died Monday at 109.

MSNBC - One of last British WWI veterans dies at 109

December 2004 article on Anderson in The Observer Last survivor of ‘Christmas truce’ tells of his sorrow

Thanks to Chuck Hall via folkdj-l

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