Christmas truce

During the  on 25 December 1914, British and German soldiers of World War I temporarily ceased fighting and were playing football against each other, sharing cigarettes, and passing around photographs of loved ones in the No Man's Land. (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons) The Ninth Doctor served as a referee for one of the matches (COMIC: The Forgotten)

The celebrations were witnessed by the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, and Sara Kingdom; (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy) the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown; (PROSE: Never Seen Cairo) and the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. (COMIC: The Forgotten) The next day, soldiers resumed fighting. (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy)