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The Story of the Foootball and the First World War Website
THE FOOTBALL AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR STORY It’s easy to miss the small British graveyard that sits on the western edge of Auchonvillers, a sleepy rural village in the Picardy region of northern France. Tucked away behind a spattering of farm out-buildings, on the road that takes you to the commune of Mailly-Maillet 2km […]
Continue readingAbout the Foootball Club and the First World War Website
ABOUT THE WEBSITE Football and the First World War is a non-profit research website designed, created and maintained by Iain McMullen. With initial support from the National Football Museum and the Professional Footballers’ Association during the First World War Centenary, and much help along the way from the many individuals and organisations who have kindly offered their assistance […]
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SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgements and Thanks to… David Abbott, Gary Archer, Stephen Bannister, Edward Barbour, Simon Barker, Barnsley Football Club, Matthew Bell, Graham Birch, Professor Huw Bowen, Paul Briers, Tony Brown, Chelsea Graves Society, Jugjit Chima, Tim Clapham, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, James Cotton, Ray Court, Steph Coutts, Scott Davidson, Everton FC Heritage Society, […]
Continue readingRichard Sparling – Sports Writer and Sheffield Soldier
RICHARD SPARLING - SPORTS WRITER AND SOLDIER In 1926 Richard A. Sparling wrote what was probably the first ever football club history, entitled The Romance of the Wednesday. But this was not his first publication. In 1920 he had written, with the assistance of his fellow sportswriter Howard R. Sleigh, the official history the 12th (Service) […]
Continue readingChurchman Football Cigarette Cards 1914
CHURCHMAN FOOTBALL CIGARETTE CARDS 1914 W.A. & A.C. Churchman was originally established in 1790 by William Churchman and originally sold small pipe tobacco from their shop on Hyde Park Corner in Ipswich. It was not until 1888 that the company began producing ‘white cigarettes’ and were soon producing more than 20,000 an hour with newly-installed […]
Continue readingBritish Unifroms, Equipment and Weapons of the First World War
BRITISH UNIFROM, EQUIPMENT AND WEAPONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Continue readingDomestic Football Photographs from the First World War
England and Wales Football League and Southern League Team Groups View Scotland Scottish Football League Team Groups View
Continue readingDomestic Football Photographs from the First World War
Team Photographs Football League, Southern League and Scottish Football League Team Groups View Match Photographs British Domestic Football Match Action View
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Domestic Football Photographs British Domestic Football during the First World War View Military Football Photographs Football in the Forces during the First World War View The War Photographs from the Front View
Continue readingRecruitment Posters in World War One
RECRUITMENT POSTERS Recruitment and propaganda posters were of huge importance to the way in which was fought during the First World War. The Parliamentary Recruitment Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, was created at the start of the War and would go on to commission more than one hundred poster designs, of which over […]
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