YORKSHIRE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNIONCommemoration Book 1914-19. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Naval & Military Press, 2022
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, United KingdomNaval and Military Press Ltd
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Condition: New
£ 9.99
Item description from seller
2022 reprint (of original pub 1919). 309 pp., with 249 full page portraits of the fallen.Published Price £22 Dedicated to those soldiers who were killed - died or who were missing, it importantly includes 249 full page photographic portraits of the fallen, with useful details including; Regiment - Battalion - Rugby club belonged to - Date of Death & noted on some entries additional information, such as "Missing first gas attack Battle of Ypres April 22nd 1918", a wonderful and contemporary tribute to those sportsmen who served and fell for their King and country.Besides those who did not return is also contains a roll, by collage or club, of all who joined the forces during The Great War and survived.
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- Title
- YORKSHIRE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNIONCommemoration Book 1914-19
- Author
- Yorkshire Rfu
- Publisher
- Naval & Military Press
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1474536077
- ISBN 13
- 9781474536073
- Seller catalogs
- First World War - Britain and the Home Front, Genealogy and Heraldry
This memorial volume, that is rare in its original 1919 printing, was produced to commemorate those players who didn't come back from the wartime years 1914-1919.
It is dedicated to those soldiers who were killed, died or who were missing. It importantly includes 249 full-page photographic portraits of the fallen, with useful details including: Regiment, Battalion, Rugby club belonged to, Date of Death and, noted on some entries, additional information such as "Missing first gas attack Battle of Ypres April 22nd 1918". This is a wonderful and contemporary tribute to those sportsmen who served and fell for their King and country.
Besides those who did not return, it also contains a roll, by college or club, of all who joined the forces during the Great War and survived.
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