222940 Pte. Percy George Andrews British Army 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment from:Dulwich, London Pte. Percy G. Andrews was my grandfather. Sadly he died before I was born but my grandmother told us this story.
Nowadays we hear of the Christmas Day Truce when English and German soldiers had a game of football. Well, my grandfather was not a sporty person, probably down to the fact that he had very poor eyesight. In civvies he was an accountant but his love was for music and he played both the piano and the violin. So when he explained that he could not play football, only the piano, he was taken over to the German camp where he spent an afternoon entertaining the Germans. Eventually he had exhausted all his memorised pieces but they weren't ready to let him go so he played as his finale a jazzed-up version of 'God Save the King' which they thoroughly applauded, but did not recognise!
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