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Keptie
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:10 pm Post subject: Raith Rovers football team & 100 years since WW1 |
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The Courier & Advertiser for January 28th 2014:
Club to mark players war heroics with SPECIAL STRIP:
RAITH ROVERS have revealed plans for a new away strip designed to mark the sacrifice the club's players made during WW1 .
One Hundred years ago Sir George McCRAE raised a battalion of SPORTSMEN to fight for King and Country in the great war WITH SEVEN RAITH ROVERS PLAYERS joining up along with a group of players from HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN and other Clubs.
The BATTALION known as the 16th ROYAL SCOTS took part in the key actions including the Battle of the Somme and the push for Passchendaele AND ...THREE RAITH PLAYERS :
JIMMY TODD
JIMMY SCOTT
and GEORGE MCLAY - lost their lives during the fighting
Now a century on , the KIRKCALDY CLUB have broken from their traditional team colours to launch a COMMEMORATIVE SECOND STRIP to mark the Centenary of the Formation of the McCrae's Battalion and RAITH ROVERS link with it .
The SHIRT which is expected to be avaialable in the spring , is in the colours of the HUNTING STEWART tartan worn by the Royal Scots and aims to honour all those who have served in the armed forces in conflicts since .
Raith chairman Turnbull Hutton said he hoped supporters would be proud to wear the colours of theMcCrae Battalion for the next two seasons .
"We wanted to do something completely different for next season in terms of the kit colours but at the same time the board has been considering a suitable way to mark this centenary in an appropriate manner , so we have brought these two ambitions together with our new green and black strip ". he said.
Willie PORTER , Willie LAVERY and Jock RATTRAY were the other Rovers players who signed up to the McCrae's battalion - while a further 10 ROVERS PLAYERS also ENLISTED for service in other REGIMENTS during WW1.
A memorial cairn was erected at CONTALMAISON in Norther France a decade ago to remember those who fought in the battalion while Rovers are represented each year at MEMORIAL SERVICES in Edinburgh to commemorate Remembrance Day and the part McCrae's Battalion in the conflict .
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Keptie
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:07 pm Post subject: Raith Rovers football team & 100 years since WW1 |
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I should have said that the photo of the football strip shows the word
"REMEMBER " in the centre of the shirt ..
pat w anderson |
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