As we celebrate this damp start to our new year, it would be fitting to remember the new year of a hundred and one years ago, when 1914 turned to 1915. The famous Christmas truce in the trenches of WWI in 1914, actually extended to new year's day 1915 in some parts of the trenches.
In December 2014, a memorial was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum commemorating the famous Christmas day football match which took place in 1914. The memorial is entitled "Football Remembers" and was designed by a Newcastle school boy after a nationwide competition.
