A01=Tom Purdie
Author_Tom Purdie
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NHWR5
Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-WS
Category=SCBT
Category=SCX
Category=SFBC
COP=United Kingdom
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Football Biographies
Format=BC
History of Sports
HMM=234
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445633206
Local & Urban History
Memoirs
Military History
Military History of Strategy
Military History of World War I
PA=Available
PD=20140801
POP=Chalford
Price=20.39
PS=Active
PUB=Amberley Publishing
Subject=History
Subject=Sports & Outdoor Recreation
Training & Coaching
War & Defence Operations
WG=375
WMM=156
World War One
WWI
Product details
- ISBN 9781445633206
- Weight: 375g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In November 1914, Hearts led the Scottish First Division. In the middle of a debate about the morality of continuing professional football during the First World War and a campaign to shame footballers into joining up, eleven Hearts players enlisted in Sir George McCrae’s battalion on 25 November. Hearts supporters and players and supporters from myriad other clubs flocked to join as well. Officially known as 16th Royal Scots, this unit was the first to be described as a footballers’ battalion.
On 1 July 1916, 15th and 16th Royal Scots attacked near the village of Contalmaison in the Somme Valley. Three Hearts players would die that day; seven would be killed in total during the war, and many more would be wounded.
In this book, Tom Purdie tells the story of the Hearts players and supporters who served their country during the Great War and those who were left behind in Edinburgh who, with unstinting effort and sacrifice, helped to bring the club through that extremely trying time in its proud history.
Tom Purdie is a local author has written numerous books on Scottish football.
