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Christmas Truce Football Match at Wulverghem

Christmas Truce Football Match at Wulverghem

'Orders have just arrived saying we are to go into the trenches for Xmas-Day which from my point of view is very disappointing, I had been hoping to spend it in billets. I should hate to be killed on Xmas-day it would not be right at all. It is freezing hard now’.

Lieutenant Charles Brockbank, Christmas 1914

A War Poet's Compass

A War Poet's Compass

"No need for me to look askance,
Since no regret my prospect mars,
My day was happy—and perchance
The coming night is full of stars."

Richard Dennys, The Somme, 1916

Two Minutes at Omdurman

Two Minutes at Omdurman

"The most dangerous two minutes I shall live to see" 

Winston Churchill, Omdurman, September 1898