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8th December 2014 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

#FootballRemembers: commemorating the Christmas Truce in 1914

The Embassy football team

I’m really proud that the British Council team here in Paris have been leading the campaign with the Council to remember the football truce, that extraordinary moment around Christmas of 1914 when British and German soldiers got out of their trenches around Ypres (but we think also in some areas in France) and ended up […]

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