Footballs Collection

East Surrey Regiment kick footballs
Soldiers of the East Surrey regiment advance through heavy fire towards enemy lines, kicking footballs as they go. The footballs were provided as a means of encouraging the men to attack

Footballs as gifts for men at the front
A boy in a suit admires a tower of uninflated footballs, some with labels attached, destined to be sent as wartime Christmas gifts to soldiers at the front in world war one

Khaki Chums Christmas Truce Cross, St Yvon, Belgium
At Christmas 1914, over the 24th/25th December, a truce was held here between the 1st Battalion the Warwickshire Regiment and the 7th Bavarians in which Bruce Bairnsfaher took part

Prowse Point St Yvon Christmas Memorial Area with footballs
Prompted by the 100th Anniversaries of the battles of WW1, much interest in the Truces that took place beteen the enemies at Christmas 1914, particulary in this area

Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, Messines
The memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914

Football with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cover design, Movie Humor magazine, November 1937 -- Hollywood Girls and Gags! The pigskin you love to touch. Showing a scantily dressed woman holding an American football 1937

Man with footballs on training pitch, Spain

A football match played by troops during the battle of the A
" Our Happy Tommies" A typical upbeat choice of subject for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sutcliffes illustration

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