A highlight of 2018 was Camborne Youth Band’s trip to France and Belgium. The young musicians took a 100-year-old bugle back to the Western Front belonging to Fred Negus, a Cornishman who signed up in 1914. His great great grandson is in the Band. This was part of our Heritage Lottery funded project, Heart of […]
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Corey Williams, great great grandson of Fred Negus, a Cornish miner from Camborne who served at the Western Front, now plays in Camborne Youth Band and will retrace his footsteps to France this August. Even more extraordinary, Corey’s family has Fred’s bugle brought back from France in 1919. Fred Negus was one of a group […]
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Our project Heart of Conflict is looking at World War One in Cornwall during the centenary years of the conflict. BBC Cornwall’s Hannah Stacey created a wonderful feature around the story of the three rubgy matches at the Front played in 1915 after Camborne Rugby Club sent out a ball to local men who had […]
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