Learn more about WW1 Football in an informal Leamington History Group cafe talk. We will look at examples both at home and away of the part football played amongst the women factory workers and soldiers in the field. The session will include stories about soldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and a women’s factory team in Coventry,
There will be the chance to handle real objects.
THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, 1917-1918 (Q 26357) Final of the 48th Divisional (Fanshawe) Cup. 1/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment versus 1/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment played at Trissino, April 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195330