Christmas in uniform – 1914
Anniversaries take many forms, some celebrate joyous occasions whilst others commemorate rather more sombre times. The media are ever anxious to remind us of events from our past, be they […]
Operation Plum Puddings
By Chris
Anniversaries take many forms, some celebrate joyous occasions whilst others commemorate rather more sombre times. The media are ever anxious to remind us of events from our past, be they […]
By Chris
DID the Germans and the Allies indulge in a football match in No Man’s Land during the Christmas Truce. And if so where did it take place. Anyone thinking back […]
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THE “Christmas truce” is a term used to describe a series of unofficial cessations of hostilities that occurred along the Western Front during Christmas 1914. World War One had been […]
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Friday, January 8th, 1915: A Christmas Day Scene Rifleman J. Reading, writing to his wife, Mrs. Reading, of Germain Street, (Chesham) refers to the fact that the English and Germans […]
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Friday, January 1, 1915: British and Germans Good Friends on Christmas Day in the Trenches Miss N. Thody, 1, Peel-street, Bedford, has received a letter from Lance Corporal Cooper of […]