Last “Christmas Truce” survivor Alfred Anderson, 109

Posted: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 6:48 am

The Christmas Day Truce of 1914, Published 1915
LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) — Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have been present when the guns fell silent along the Western Front in the spontaneous “Christmas Truce” of World War I, died Monday in Newtyle, Scotland. He was 109. … Read full obituary