Fallen – Volume One 1914-1916 – The stories of 123 footballers who played for Corinthian and Casuals Football Clubs who fell in the Great War

No other association football club lost more players to the Great War than the Corinthians and Casuals Football Clubs.

They were farmers, doctors, barristers, schoolmasters, students, businessmen and merchants, everyday people who volunteered to leave their jobs, families and studies and put their lives on hold. They came from all corners of the British Isles, aged between 18 and 50, and when the call to arms came, they answered. They were members of a generation where taking up arms to fight for their King and Country was not just their duty but a matter of honour and moral obligation. They all volunteered to play the 'Greater Game'.

Among them were some of the best athletes of their generation, international sportsmen, not only footballers but rugby players, Test and First Class cricketers, hockey players and athletes.

They fell in Flanders, France, at sea and around the world, in places with haunting, infamous names such as Gallipoli, Ypres, Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele.

Many have no known graves, killed in action or from wounds received in battle, or from pure bad luck. A few died at their own hands, damaged by the horrors they experienced.

Fallen tells the stories of the lives and deaths of these players. For the first time, their sacrifice is acknowledged.

Size: 152mm x 234mm – 458 pages.