"For four years the whole world has mourned its Christmas as the result of the devastation wrought by the bitterness and hatred of war..."
It is hard for most of us in our country town to imagine in this day and age, that our forebears faced the effects of war during each Christmas from the year of 1914, and it was only just prior to the Christmas of 1918 that bought them peace, although the death toll was still rising - from skirmishes in outlying areas to those still dying from their wounds, to the flu epidemic that the soldiers bought back from the war front with them (which also took many lives). However, what profound peace at the Christmas of 1918, when at last families got some respite from the terrible toll of the war of the last nearly 4 years. Their relief is shown more below, in the local newspaper:
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