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Title: Trenchant Trench Art
Post by: Bic on December 25, 2011, 03:06:33 PM

........just a pic. I found.

Makes you think a soccer game could break out between the lines at any moment :'(

(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff372/StuartCowley/92870667.jpg)

MP

Title: Re: Trenchant Trench Art
Post by: twyacht on December 25, 2011, 03:35:04 PM

Strange Bic, I was reading about the Christmas Truce of 1914 just this morning. Here is a very well written description of that day. With pictures.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm

Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men,....Now we beat each other up for sneakers.. :-\

Title: Re: Trenchant Trench Art
Post by: Bic on December 25, 2011, 04:44:59 PM

Good article. My mother was born in 1912, the youngest by far of a large family. She had a brother, William, a private in one of the  the British South African battalions who was KIA at the battle of Delville Wood in 1916.

http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/delville.html

Scotch.......now would be good.

MP