Clapton's Khaki Team (1915)

[EssexBoy696969]

ORIENT HEROES & LEGENDS.

Another reason why I ADORE this football club; and will support them until the day I die.

Premiership 'armchair fans' just wouldn't understand the passion of our supporters.

[itarare]

O filme mostra mais a banda passando do que o jogo, mas valeu...

[tolkny]

Wow, Thankyou very much for finding and posting this. Fantastic

[Flare68]

Last game of the 1914-15 season would make this a 2-0 victory over Leicester City

[doverstraits]

Anyone know the battalion marching?

[ChadwellO]

This fantastic footage shows the aftermatch farewell parade by the17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment - 'the Footballers' Battalion. In total 41 Clapton Orient footballers and staff joined up into the 17th to serve King and country. The O's were the first Football League club to join up 'en masse'.

The ten Clapton Orient footballers that signed up on the day took part in the parade, having immediately changed out of their famous red chevron shirts and blue shorts into khaki uniforms.

[ChadwellO]

The three players are not shown coming on to the pitch. Several of those seen can be identified however - the first one seen is the O's captain and the first player in the whole country to join up into the 17th Middlesex - Fred 'Spider' Parker, the third one is the Orient 'keeper Jimmy Hugall who was wounded twice and yet came back to play football after the war. The last player is Nolan 'Peggy' Evans. Evans was severely wounded during the fighting in Devilles Wood.

[PeerlessPaavo]

Great information. Thanks.

[ChadwellO]

Richard McFadden 23 October 1916

William Jonas 27 July 1916

George Scott 16 August 1916

We Will Remember Them

[PeerlessPaavo]

ChadwellO, is it possible to identify the three fallen footballers you mention in the early sequence when they're running onto the pitch?

[whiteythompson]

Thank you, BFI. This is why we are proud of OUR club, and the sacrifices it, and the East End, made for our country and the free world.

[departments2006]

FFS Ling! Hearn Out!

[leefaichai]

thanks a lot!

[VirgLondon]

that ball had a wicked spin after the keeper parried it leaving the defender to slice it in his own net

but the defence looked more solid after that, that would've taken some breaching