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Description: | British private served with 6th Bn Cheshire Regt on Western Front, 1914; present at Christmas truce near Ypres, Belgium, 25/12/1914
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 6th Bn Cheshire Regt on Western Front, 1914: arrived at Le Havre, 10/1914: description of conditions; memory of night patrols; description of involvement in Christmas Day truce near Ypres, Belgium, 25/Dec/1914; memory of Germans singing in trenches; meeting with Germans in No Man's Land and exchanging gifts; description of playing football with Germans; attitude to smoking; opinion of Germans; reaction of officers to truce and fraternisation; reflections on modern football. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Williams, Ernie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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