Did Anyone Win the Christmas Truce Match of 1914?
Sean Price
2025-05-26 23:03:59
Count answers: 3
The Saxons won 3-2.
‘The British brought a ball from the trenches, and soon a lively game ensued,’ wrote schoolteacher Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch, of the 134th Saxons, in his diary.
Kattie Lubowitz
2025-05-14 15:42:32
Count answers: 5
Another story, from the German side, suggests that a game was played between the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment and Scottish soldiers, which the Germans won 3-2. So the evidence strongly suggests that games did take place across the front, but, given that their field was no-man's land in war-time, they were by no means official matches.
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