If so what were those examples? If not why not? Are there any examples does a more recent Wars? Has military training been adapted try to prevent it?
Note that I'm not talking about the Christmas Truce has that was apparently a top-down decision. I am referring to many incidents in which they would purposely miss their shelling and over time officers had to people around to break up these truces.
the Christmas Truce has that was apparently a top-down decision
Just asking for a bit of clarification here as this is exactly the opposite of my understanding -- from what I understand the high-ranking officers on both sides were fairly horrified when they heard about the Christmas truces and they planned artillery bombardments on Christmas Eve and Christmas the following year to ensure that it didn't happen again.
I hope someone answers this as I've heard alot of claims that in quiet sectors there were live and let live style truces. As a follow up question, was the chance of a unofficial truce being adopted affected by the regiments nationality( be they Bavarian, Scottish, Prussian, etc)? Or were there a greater frequency among specific front line soldiers( like airplane pilots not machine gunning each other after one has ditched the plane, or the sappers and miners trying not to kill each other)?