Written above the photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India. Photograph by Thomas Paar, Darjeeling.
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Saturday, 4 August 2012
Out in India
Here's another football photograph for this week's sporting Sepia Saturday.
This one's from a battered army photograph album belonging to a Private Clark who served in the Middlesex Regiment. The photographs date from 1907 to 1912 and were taken in India, South China and Singapore.
Written above the photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India. Photograph by Thomas Paar, Darjeeling.
Written above the photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India. Photograph by Thomas Paar, Darjeeling.
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I wonder whatrole the RSM played.
They're sporting medals. From their wins? Some have more medals than others do.
When I enlarge the photo, you can see that 1912 is written on the ball. Interesting picture!
Football? In Australia, the footballs are not round. We call that Soccer. This ball looks like a basketball to me?
They certainly look as though they take their sport seriously.
Soccer, football? In continental Europe that's all the same. And the ball definitely looks like a "football". Never heard of basketball in India in 1912. But I may be wrong.
If I look at the picture I see 11 guys with the same shirt (front & back row with the goalie in the darker shirt). So that could be the soccer team. But I have no idea about the 3 white shirts. Replacements? The 2 civilians and the sergeant (?) will be the unavoidable officials.
No matter what, this is a true Sepia Saturday picture!
Great photo!
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