Chase, 7, and Alisha, 6, at the site of the Christmas truce with the signed football
A First World War enthusiast has taken his children and a football signed by their primary school, to the site of the famous Christmas football match truce.
Nick Duce, of Orchard Road, Southminster, went with his partner Jodie Mills and their two children Chase, 7, and Alisha, 6, both Southminster Primary School pupils, to the Belgian cross which commemorates the 1914 Christmas pause in hostilities.
He said: “I have always been interested in history and the First World War.
“We have visited Belgium a few times and we camp in Ypres.
“We spoke to Mrs Harding and I suggested that when we went this year we would take the football.
“We placed it at the scene of the Khaki Cross, where the Christmas Truce happened."
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