Sport

Christmas Eve at the Front

An interesting letter has just been received by Mrs Packer, of Broadclyst, from her husband, Corpl Packer of A Company, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who is serving with the Expeditionary Force in Northern France. In the course of a letter he describes a remarkable incident which occurred on Christmas Eve between the British and German trenches.

At one time on Sunday there were 75 or more golfers all on the fairway to the fourth hole at Westward Ho!

But this was no pile-up of play: they were all armed with shovels, brooms and rakes and were taking part in 'operation sand-blast.'

Their task was to clear some of the considerable accumulation of sand which has blown from the sand dunes on to this fairway.

Members of both the Royal North Devon Golf Club and the Northam Artisans' Golf Club joined in the combined operation, sweeping the sand into piles and shovelling it into trailers.

'It has been a very gratifying effort' said Mr Ted Lamey, chairman of the RND Golf Club's Greens Committee.

Royal North Devon Golf Club

Gazette articled dated 14 April 1967

16-A-Side Soccer

Two men dressed as women

Gazette article dated 13 May 1977

Appledore Seniors

Champions of the North Devon Senior League for the sixth time since the war

J Curtis (committee), Sid Cox, Stan Edwards, Bob Hocking, Ronnie Cook, Cyril Moyse, Roy Drew, Alan Smith (trainer), Bobby Bailey, Gerald Cornish, Des Bennett, Dai Jones, Doug Bale

Gazette article dated 9 May 1958