01-07-2022, 19:14
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2022, 19:19 by Lord Snooty.)
Yes I was reading about Hearts this morning. Can't find it now but did they lose four players on the first day of the Somme?
https://twitter.com/Hearts_Heritage/stat...4293434370
@Hearts_Heritage: On the 1st July 1916 four @jamtarts players who were members of 16th Battalion Royal Scots were killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Duncan Currie
Ernest Ellis
Jimmy Hawthorn (played in 1899)
Harry Wattie
Rest in Peace Boys https://t.co/17tz8MxiVs
https://twitter.com/Hearts_Heritage/stat...4293434370
@Hearts_Heritage: On the 1st July 1916 four @jamtarts players who were members of 16th Battalion Royal Scots were killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Duncan Currie
Ernest Ellis
Jimmy Hawthorn (played in 1899)
Harry Wattie
Rest in Peace Boys https://t.co/17tz8MxiVs
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