Words and pictures bring the Great War experience alive

An eight-page account of the famous football match played on Christmas Day in the First World War during an unofficial truce was a highlight of a remarkable album compiled by Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse Maude Alice Lineham (1883-1967).

Published records confirm that she served as a Red Cross Volunteer from November 1,1914, to Octobe…

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