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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Iconic “Christmas Truce” Football Photo is from Thessaloniki, Greece

This iconic photograph of British soldiers playing football has become famous as it accompanies articles about the Christmas truce football match in 1914 annually. However, as Professor Peter Doyle says, the photo was not shot along the front lines of WWI in France and Flanders, but thousands of miles away in Greece’s Thessaloniki in 1915. […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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