Well Done Portsmouth FC

[Gazza58]

To mark the 100th anniversary of our involvement in world war one,portsmouth FC have had weaved into there shirts every name of the fallen soldiers who were known as "pompey pals" they served with the 14th and 15th battilions hampshire regiment.Good on em.

[castleboy]

To mark the 100th anniversary of our involvement in world war one,portsmouth FC have had weaved into there shirts every name of the fallen soldiers who were known as "pompey pals" they served with the 14th and 15th battilions hampshire regiment.Good on em.

 

Thats a very nice gesture Gazza , very good on Pompey. Owl.

[Bypassblade]

To mark the 100th anniversary of our involvement in world war one,portsmouth FC have had weaved into there shirts every name of the fallen soldiers who were known as "pompey pals" they served with the 14th and 15th battilions hampshire regiment.Good on em.

 

That is a very noble gesture mate, as you say good on them

[castleboy]

To mark the 100th anniversary of our involvement in world war one,portsmouth FC have had weaved into there shirts every name of the fallen soldiers who were known as "pompey pals" they served with the 14th and 15th battilions hampshire regiment.Good on em.

 

Reckon more clubs will follow suit in some form. In memory of the

young men that never came home.

 

God bless them all. Owl.

[mjw47]

On the 1st of July 1916 the 12th battalion ( City of Sheffield ) York and Lancs Regiment set out at dawn to advance on the German held village of Serre.

 

In a little over ten minutes 513 of those Sheffield 'pals' were dead, mown down by machine gun fire.

 

One of them was a 19 year old cousin of mine that I never got to meet, he would have been 50 when I was born.

 

It would be nice if both clubs produced a shirt with their names and those of other Sheffield casualties.

 

I have never bought a football shirt, other than to wear it whilst playing, but I'd make an exception for that.

 

Having said which, I think we need to be careful to ensure that we remember, but do not glorify war.

 

There is no such thing as 'The Glorious Dead' , they're just dead, and there's nothing glorious about it, we'll all get there in the end.

 

Respect, but not encouraging young impressionable lads to think it's something to aspire to.

 

Well done Pompey nice gesture.