Christmas 1914: as told to Tony D’Souza

‘All this I remember as if it were yesterday.’

by Tony D’Souza 19th December 2025

Perhaps it was the stillness of that night that was the most remarkable, an unearthly stillness, as if the gap between heaven and earth had lessened and become porous. I listened to the stillness for some time – though I don’t know if you could call it listening, I was more of a witness to it. The stillness lay over the frozen land like a thick blanket of fog.