Yvon Collection

Yvon Petra playing tennis
Yvon Petra (1916-1984), French tennis player, winning the Mens Singles World Championship in 1946 at Wimbledon. He defeated the Australian Geoffrey Brown in the finals

Khaki Chums Christmas Truce Cross, St Yvon, Belgium
At Christmas 1914, over the 24th/25th December, a truce was held here between the 1st Battalion the Warwickshire Regiment and the 7th Bavarians in which Bruce Bairnsfaher took part

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

Second-hand Booksellers, on the Quai de la Tournelle, on the Bank of the Seine, Paris - Yvon postcard 1918 Date: 1918

Emperor Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann
Napoleon III handing over the decree of annexation of the suburbs of Paris to Baron Haussmann, for urban development (16 February 1859)

Prowse Point St Yvon Christmas Memorial Area with footballs
Prompted by the 100th Anniversaries of the battles of WW1, much interest in the Truces that took place beteen the enemies at Christmas 1914, particulary in this area

Bruce Bairnsfathers Cottage Memorial, St Yvon, Belgium
The rebuilt cottage stands on the site of the original building in which, in 1914, Bruce Bairnsfather drew his first catoons which led to the creation of Old Bill

Tsar Nicolas I (1796 - 1855) reviewing his guard. Date: circa 1840

Yvon Petra(1916-1984), French tennis player, pictured here with his young daughter, prior to winning the 1946 Wimbledon mens singles title

Yvon Petra in tennis whites
Yvon Petra(1916-1984), French tennis player, pictured here posing in his tennis whites, prior to winning the 1946 Wimbledon mens singles title

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