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Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
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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. A football match did take place just before Christmas 1914 but, like the title of first village to be liberated after D-Day in Normandy in 1944, there is competition to claim ownership of the event. It is well-documented that a Truce took place at the nearby village of St Yvon and that a football match took place at Frelinghien. Date: 2016
Media ID 23372972
© Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
1944 2015 2016 Andy Claim Competition D Day Edwards Football Hands Ieper Liberated Match Messines Nearby Normandy Ownership Sculpted Shaking Sized Statues This Title Truce Unveiled Ypres Yvon
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