Welsh and German Troops recreate Christmas Truce

A descendant of a Royal Welsh Fusilier involved in a World War One Christmas Truce has travelled to France to mark the occasion.

Major Miles Stockwell - whose Grandfather Inglis Stockwell agreed the truce - met with the grandson of the German officer involved.

• Welsh and German troops play football in recreation of Christmas Truce

Welsh and German troops have gathered together in France today to play a football match, recreating the famous Christmas Truce match of 1914.

A team from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers are currently taking on a German army staff side at Frelinghien in northern France.

Almost 100 years since the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, Welsh and German troops have been recreating the episode at the site on the Western Front where it happened.

It was on Christmas Day in 1914 that the guns fell silent in the town of Frelinghien. German troops and soldiers from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers mingled in no man's land, and the two company commanders exchanged gifts of beer and plumb pudding.

The grandsons of those two men - Major Miles Stockwell and Colonel Joachim Freiherr Von Sinner - relived that moment today at the site of an excavated trench at the town near the Belgian border.

This afternoon teams made up of current Welsh and German troops will play football against each other. The Welsh will be hoping to improve on the result of 100 years ago, which saw the British team defeated 3-2.