Cornish tin miners from Dolcoath featured in a special exhibition created by students at the College du Sacre Coeur, Estaires, in northern France created last week (6 December 2019). Students at the school, which was turned into a Field Hospital in World War One, put on a display about the men from Cornwall in the […]
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It was a cold and wet but splendid afternoon on 6 December 2019 when the College du Sacre Coeur in Estaires, France, commemorated three historic rugby matches played on the Western Front nearby more than 100 years earlier. The games in May 1915 were played between Cornish and Devon teams in the 25th Field Ambulance […]
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It was lovely today (18 December 2019) to visit St John’s Catholic Primary School, Camborne. Cornwall, and pass on a message from another school – very far away, in Estaires, northern France. Pupils at St John’s and the College du Sacre Coeur have been exchanging letters over the past few months. They have also sent […]
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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, […]
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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.
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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 […]
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