Brilliant - hopefully they'll be able to identify the third player who was killed in WW1 soon, would be nice if he has any remaining family that they know that his club is still thinking of him even after 100 years.
Clive and I have a theory as to who it is. if it is him then yes his family are still thinking of him but it it hard to be sure the name we have is correct.
The club made a statement just after the war Barney that three lost their lives but didn't name any of them, we have identified two so far and are close we think to the third, why they were never named in the first place we have no idea.
The club made a statement just after the war Barney that three lost their lives but didn't name any of them, we have identified two so far and are close we think to the third, why they were never named in the first place we have no idea.
If it was just after the war is it possible that some families hadnt been advised that their loved ones hasn't survived so it was thought best not to name names just in case ?
The club made a statement just after the war Barney that three lost their lives but didn't name any of them, we have identified two so far and are close we think to the third, why they were never named in the first place we have no idea.
If it was just after the war is it possible that some families hadnt been advised that their loved ones hasn't survived so it was thought best not to name names just in case ?
Possibly but IMHO it is more likely that everyone knew who they were so they didn't need to be reminded. It was a small club. It had maybe 50 or 60 players and members (a guess) and 30 went to war.
It could be that the names were listed but in a document that we no longer have access to.
Hence trawling military records, local papers, local casualty lists, census data etc to try and eliminate people and narrow the search.
So we have a picture of a club member in 1913 who doesn't seem to appear in photos afterwards and we have a person with the same name and the location of his war grave. But it might not be the same person and he might have survived the war but not been involved after.
We don't have a 1914 or 1919 membership list. We have board minutes from 1921 onward but haven't found what we want in there.
Just one thing, (and please excuse my ignorance), but who is Donald and what is his back story? I ask only out of respectful curiosity because I always get a bit choked up when I see a military old boy in these sort of situations - so obviously brimming with pride and rightly so.
So if it's ok, what's his story? (And if it's not, please accept my apologies.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US_CSO0JbGQ&feature=youtu.be
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It could be that the names were listed but in a document that we no longer have access to.
Hence trawling military records, local papers, local casualty lists, census data etc to try and eliminate people and narrow the search.
So we have a picture of a club member in 1913 who doesn't seem to appear in photos afterwards and we have a person with the same name and the location of his war grave. But it might not be the same person and he might have survived the war but not been involved after.
We don't have a 1914 or 1919 membership list. We have board minutes from 1921 onward but haven't found what we want in there.
Just one thing, (and please excuse my ignorance), but who is Donald and what is his back story?
I ask only out of respectful curiosity because I always get a bit choked up when I see a military old boy in these sort of situations - so obviously brimming with pride and rightly so.
So if it's ok, what's his story?
(And if it's not, please accept my apologies.)
Long interview with Clive from 46 mins and he even names the possible third casualty among a lot of other stories and details.
I'll give that a listen later.