posted on 2024-02-22, 15:44authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
This is probably a photo of the 1/5th Lincs Regt football team taken before their match agaisnt 10th Battalion (aka Grimsby Chums) at Blundell Park on 22 October 1914. The goalkeeper (marked with a cross) is 2683 William Albert Wenham. The rest of the team which played this match was: B. Smith; A. Atkinson; A. Corder; J.L Anderson; E.Parkin; W.Hatt; J.Hornshaw; E. Sunley; W. Quince; C. Dobson.
There are least 2 soldiers in the crowd wearing what could be Lincolnshire Regt cap badges.
There is no writing on the back of the card.
History
Identifier
2433.jpg|
GWA_0413_061.jpg|
Creator
Wenham, William Albert
Subject
Anderson, J. L.; Atkinson, A.; Corder, A.; Dobson, C.; Hatt, W.; Hornshaw, J.; Parkin, E.; Quince, W.; Smith, B.; Sunley, E.; Wenham, William Albert
Date
22nd October 1914
Date Created
22/10/1914
Source
Photograph
Medium
Photographic paper
Type
Photograph
Contributor
Everett Sharp | Gavin Robinson | Kevin Robinson
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor