Photograph from the ‘Illustrated London News’, 4 November, 1916, (Catalogue ref: ZPER 34/148).
Boxing matches were not uncommon during quiet times at the front, for example Richard James in this collection of letters, wrote that he was having “good time here in the way of concerts, sports, boxing tournaments…”
Photo caption: “Queensberry rules” within sound of the battlefield guns: a boxing tournament in the neighbourhood of the British front.