Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, and on Christmas Day that year many men from Monmouthshire found themselves in the trenches. The 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment witnessed the Christmas Day Truce. I know this from a letter my Great Great Uncle William Jones sent home. He described attaching a copy of the Pontypool Free Press to a rifle as a flag of truce and spending a couple of hours talking to the Germans. Others wrote home of the same experience. Back at home fundraising efforts were taking place over the four war Christmases to provide food and clothing for those still fighting and those taken to Germany as prisoners of war.
This is the final chapter of Christmas in Monmouthshire and it will be available by the end of October 2015
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