52275: 5th Lincs Regt football team

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posted on 2024-02-22, 15:44 authored by Great 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

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford