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Academy Honours Remembrance Through Truce Project

Our Under-12s have taken part in a powerful act of remembrance this month, joining the annual Truce Project to pay tribute to servicemen and women past and present.

2025-11-09T10:00+00:00

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09 Nov, 2025

Academy Honours Remembrance Through Truce Project

Our Under-12s have taken part in a powerful act of remembrance this month, joining the annual Truce Project to pay tribute to servicemen and women past and present.

Admin

2025-11-09T10:00+00:00

Academy Honours Remembrance Through Truce Project

Our Under-12s have taken part in a powerful act of remembrance this month, joining the annual Truce Project to pay tribute to servicemen and women past and present.

Admin

2025-11-09T10:00+00:00

Academy Honours Remembrance Through Truce Project

Our Under-12s have taken part in a powerful act of remembrance this month, joining the annual Truce Project to pay tribute to servicemen and women past and present.

Admin

2025-11-09T10:00+00:00

Academy Honours Remembrance Through Truce Project

Our Under-12s have taken part in a powerful act of remembrance this month, joining the annual Truce Project to pay tribute to servicemen and women past and present.

Admin

2025-11-09T10:00+00:00

City's Under-12s Academy players commemorated the Christmas Truce of 1914 through a special project
The youngsters learned about Remembrance and previous conflicts while creating handmade wreaths
The wreaths were laid at memorial gardens in the city including Victoria Park’s Remembrance Monument

The project commemorates the 1914 Christmas Truce – the remarkable moment during the First World War when British, French and German soldiers laid down their weapons over the festive season. Each year, Academy teams across the country mark this historic event by reflecting on the values of respect, unity and peace.

At Seagrave, our young Foxes learned about conflicts of the past and the meaning of Remembrance. Guided by Academy staff, they crafted handmade wreaths, understanding how this simple act has become a national symbol of reflection and gratitude.

With their tributes complete, the group travelled across Leicester to lay wreaths at memorial gardens at King Power Stadium, Leicester Tigers’ Mattioli Woods Welford Road, and finally at Victoria Park’s Remembrance Monument – concluding their day with a moment of quiet reflection at one of the city’s most poignant landmarks.

A week later, the young players’ learning continued with the visit of veterans to Seagrave to speak to the group about their experiences. In partnership with Veterans Hub, ran by Loughborough Wellbeing, they were there to provide wider context to the significance of remembrance and were supported by our own Club Historian John Hutchinson.

As well as personal accounts, the Academy prospects were also educated on the Leicester Fosse and Leicester City players who served in the First and Second World Wars. The children were then given the opportunity to ask questions and present the veterans with the wreaths they had made the previous week.

Academy Head of Education Jay Groocock said: “This has been a very rewarding exercise once again for our youngsters. It’s always great to see the players put their creativity towards such a deserving cause and to help them realise the significance of the Royal British Legion’s Remembrance period.

“This is always a special time for our Football Club, as we’ll see at the two Remembrance fixtures across our men’s and women’s teams this coming week.

“It’s important for us to not only bring through a next generation of footballers at Leicester City, but to also help shape them as individuals and give them a positive grounding in life as they get older. Activities like this help us to do that and it’s a brilliant way for us to show our own support for the Remembrance period every year.”

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