Last survivor of WWI's 'Christmas Truce' dies
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109.
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