British and German armies commemorate WWI Christmas truce football match – in pictures

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  British Army cadets carry out the national flags of England and Germany onto the pitch prior to Wednesday's football match in Aldershot commemorating 100 years since the Christmas Day Truce of World War I. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP

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  British Army players hold a minute silence prior to their football match against the German Army on Wednesday to commemorate the World War I Christas Day Truce. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP

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  British Army soldiers watch their team playing against the German army in Aldershot, England on Wednesday. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP

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  British Army player Calum Wilkinson, right, dives at the ball against German Army (Bundeswehr) player Michal Kniat in the match called the "Game of Truce" on Wednesday. Ben Stansall / AFP

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  Bundeswehr player David Sasse dribbles the ball against the British Army team in their football match on Wednesday in Aldershot to mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Day Truce of World War I. Ben Stansall / AFP

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  British Army player Keith Emmerson, right, passes the ball past Bundeswehr player Marcus Geogi during the "Game of Truce" on Wednesday in Aldershot, England. Ben Stansall / AFP

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  British Army personnel celebrate a goal as they watch the football match against the German Army on Wednesday to mark 100 years since the World War I Christmas Truce. The British Army won the match 1-0. Toby Melville / Reuters

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  Officers wearing replica World War I British and German army uniforms watch Wednesday's football match between the British and German armies in Aldershot to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the match played during the Christmas Day Truce in 1914 during World War I. Toby Melville / Reuters

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  British Army football captain Sergeant Keith Emmerson, right, shakes hands with his German counterpart, Bundeswehr captain Alfred Hess, before their teams played the "Game of Truce" on Wednesday in Aldershot, England. Toby Melville / Reuters

The teams, representing the British Army and German Bundeswehr, played in Aldershot, England on Wednesday to honour 100 years since Christmas 1914, when troops left the trenches during World War I and agreed to a one-day truce, where they are said to have played a football match in no-man’s land between the trenches along the Western Front.