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Jimmy Speirs – A Hero of the Football and Battlefield
JIMMY SPEIRS - HERO OF THE FOOTBALL AND BATTLEFIELD In the ‘Official History of the Great War’, Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds records that 244,897 British and Commonwealth soldiers became casualties during the Third Battle of Ypres. Among the dead was an FA Cup winning captain who played more than three hundred games as professional footballer before earning […]
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BRADFORD CITY ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB 1914/15 Squad Bradford City Football League and FA Cup Squad View 1914/15 Results Bradford City Football League and FA Cup Results View Home Ground Valley Parade Football Ground, Bradford, Yorkshire View Players Served Bradford City Players Served in the First World War View
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