French students at the northern town of Estaires – on the Western Front throughout World War One – made a dignified and moving gesture to mark Remembrance Day this year (2019) by placing wooden crosses with handwritten messages on the hundreds of graves in their local cemetery. Estaires was hit hard by World War One, […]

Many thanks to Aidan Botha, of Heartlands, Pool, for this wonderful selection of photographs from the opening of our exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE: MUSIC AND RUGBY IN WORLD WAR ONE, which was on display from 11 October to 6 November 2018 at Heartlands.

We were honoured to be in Estaires, northern France, to mark Armistice Day 2018 – 100 years since the end of World War One. Many Cornishmen in the 25th Field Ambulance were stationed in the town. In August 2018, we travelled out to Estaires with Camborne Youth Band with the 100-year-old bugle belonging to one […]