Christmas 1916 was a miserable one for the progress of the War, with the bloody Battles of the Somme and Verdun barely over, and the 1915 Battle of Champagne - to which this postcard refers, and during which some fifty thousand died - by then just a distant memory.
There was no Christmas truce in the trenches this year, as there had been in 1914, and even in a few places in 1915.
"The War to end all wars" ground on.
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