Football match took place at Wicks Lane in #Formby on Boxing Day John Phillips remembered the Christmas Formby welcomed soldiers set for the trenches of France in 1914. (Image kindly provided by Formby Civic Society) This Boxing Day, we reflect on a remarkable chapter in Formby’s history. Back in December 1914, as the First World War raged on, soldiers from the 15th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment found themselves in our village en route to the trenches of France and Bel