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Rugby Remembers: Rosslyn Park Rugby Club, London

Rosslyn Park, a venerable rugby club founded in 1879, has no memorial to its Great War dead. Its Second World War fallen, including Prince Obolensky, are remembered, but not those from 1914-18. Theory has it that a marble plaque was lost when the club moved in 1956.

When the research started, there was no Roll of Honour, only a press cutting from 1919 reporting 66 dead and 6 missing from over 350 who served. By matching CWGC records with the original club membership records, over 70 names have been identified and the work continues.

The project took one junior team to the Somme and Compiegne to play rugby in tribute to that lost generation of players and to discover more about their own forebears' war lives.

Stephen is and Head of Youth Development at Rosslyn Park and his personal interest in WW1 comes from his grandfather who fought from 1914 and survived.

Lees verder op hun boeiende website:
http://www.rugbyremembers.co.uk/index.html
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Zie ook:
http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=20710
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http://www.cwgc.org/admin/files/Rugby%20leaflet.pdf
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