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 […]
CHRISTMAS TRUCE: THE FOOTBALL MATCH
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 […]
The Christmas Truce: A general overview
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 […]
HAMPSHIRE
2nd January 1915 A lady residing near Winchester wrote to us yesterday as follows:- “I have this morning received a letter from an officer who went to the front with […]
ESSEX
Essex County Chronicle, Friday, 15th January, 1915 THE WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES: Sergt. A. Lovell, A Company, 3rd Rifle Brigade, writing to relatives at Walthamstow, on Christmas Day, says: […]
Dublin
January 4th, 1915: On the Field of War: A Lucky Escape. Jack Tar As Journlist. Enemy’s fraternal greetings The following from The Times is a translation of a letter from […]
DEVON
January 2 1915: Wonderful Xmas. Exonian tells of Xmas trees before the trenches Corporal Leon Harris of the 13th battalion London Regiment (Kensington) who has been serving at the front […]
CUMBRIA
January 7th, 1915: Maryport Private on the Christmas Truce. Fraternizing with the Germans. “It was a ripping parcel and we had a grand time over it. To crown all, one […]
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
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 […]
BEDFORDSHIRE
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 […]