"War is a man's business"!! It was indeed true in 1914 and no women were to be found on the front line. But by the end of WWI, about 90,000 women, from the British Empire, had volunteered as nurses. More than 3,000 were Australians and about 550 were from New Zealand.

In the small town of Messines in Belgium, a small memorial commemorates when two opposing armies came together not to fight but to extend Christmas goodwill under an unofficial truce. It was Christmas 1914 on the Western Front and five months into the Great War (World War 1).