The Christmas Match by Pehr Thermaenius

Author:Pehr Thermaenius
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christmas, truce, football, sainsburys, match, centenary, world, war, one, soldier
ISBN: 9781910500064
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Albert

Quiet, but still dangerous

In the middle of October the XIXth German Army corps moved to the west from Lille. The corps stayed there and fought against the British during the coming months.

To begin with the fighting was intense, especially around the village of Frelinghien, Johannes Niemann wrote in his book. It was there, in the flat fields, that Saxons and Scots met in No Man’s Land at Christmas.

The second battalion of IR133, which was not Albert Schmidt’s battalion, took part in a fight for the brewery in Frelinghien on 26 October. The British were forced to leave the brewery. The building had thick walls that gave protection and from the top there was a good view over the trenches that ran to the south across the flat landscape. Erich von Falkenhayn, the supreme commander of the German forces climbed to the top of the brewery in November to study the front where he prepared a major attack.

The second battalion of IR133 then fought in the trenches on the edge of Ploegsteert Wood. This was not far from where the 93 rd, Jimmy Coyle’s battalion, attacked on 9 November.

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