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Having taken into account the current COVID restrictions that currently apply in the different parts of the UK, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 reunion.
The Chairman Nick Butler will be heading up the Fan at 0930 hrs on Saturday the 15th May and he will lay a BAFC wreath on behalf of the Club at the summit.
He will also toast The Fallen.
If other members wish to make their own pilgrimage up the Fan at their own risk please follow the relevant COVID restrictions that will be in place.
As a Club we are not able to accept liability for members safety and well being over the weekend of 14/15 May. Our Clubs insurance that normally covers Fandance will not operate this year.
Update to follow reference Aldershot 10 Miler on the 20th November 2021.
.........................................................................................................................The 10 Miler will be held on w/e Saturday 23rd November 2024........................................................................................
Been out in the glorious sunshine for the last few hours with my trusty camera. Wanted to have a look at some new WW1 trenches uncovered just down the road. They where used to train troops before crossing over to France and have been hidden since then in the bracken and scrub just down the road.
S.hould av taken the owd hurdy gurdy Taz.Similar WW1 training area on Hallam Moor on the outskirts of Sheffield where the Sheffield City Battalion did their training,only to be wiped out on the first day of the Battle Of The Somme,"Two Years In The Making,Ten Minutes In The Breaking!"
Vast moorland full of old trench works now grazed on by sheep,farmer gave me permission to detect and found some brill stuff,N0.5 Mills Bomb,.303 Rounds,Cap Badges,Buttons,even found a brass bicycle bell! Came across the shit pit,loads o broken pottery,but found some intact preserve stone jars,even some Edward V11 Silver Half Crowns.
Donated much of it to the "Sheffield City Battalion" Historical Society. Don,t ya just love history!
When I was walking about and specially along the trench lines it was pretty sobering to think about the men who trained in them and what became of them later.
I will take the hurdy gurdy Dave and see what I come up with. It's stange to think it's less that 15 mins from my front door yet nobody knew it was there.
BillS the rain has run dry for a change, we got a good drenching earlier in the year
An old guy once gave me a badge for my collection a few years ago it was Leeds Pals, I often wondered who it belonged to and what became of him. Unfortunately unlike a medal you can't really trace the individual soldier, only the unit. But perhaps if I post a few pictures of a few badges, some of you may have had relatives that served in a particular unit during those times and may be able to relate their particular experiences.
good idea Bob, like to see them. I can start the ball rolling too. My Grandad was from Leeds and did time in the old ta before going to Canada where he joined the CEF in 1914.
Here,s a pic of me owd grandad who was from Whitley Bay,not reight good quality cos I,ve gorris stuff framed. Before WW1 he played in goal for Newcastle from time to time and joined up in 1915 with some of his footballer mates. He served in 3 different regiments,initially the Northern Cyclists,then the DLI and off to France,then after the battle of the Somme,to make up the losses transferred to the West Yorks in a Battalion known as the Leeds Rifles. You can see the their badge in the form of a sweetheart brooch at the bottom of the pic.
In 1917 he copped for a lung full of mustard gas and was invalided home where he suffered over the next 20 years of his life,going blind and severe burns on his body.In and out of Roehampton and St. Dunstans,he died in 1938.
The clip of the newspaper, The Newcastle Chronicle April 21 1938 at the bottom of the pic covers the story of his mate Jimmy Seed the then Charlton Athletic manager who had just won the FA cup visiting him whil,st he was in Roehampton a couple of days before he died. 003.jpg
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S.hould av taken the owd hurdy gurdy Taz.Similar WW1 training area on Hallam Moor on the outskirts of Sheffield where the Sheffield City Battalion did their training,only to be wiped out on the first day of the Battle Of The Somme,"Two Years In The Making,Ten Minutes In The Breaking!"
.............no rain!!.
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