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Rugby was officially cancelled between 1939 and 1945, but that didn’t stop the people of Cornwall from playing the game. Here is the largely untold story of Cornish rugby during the war years…
Cornish Rugby During World War Two
On this date…
...25 September 1915: the opening of the Battle of Loos on the Western Front. Two School of Mines students were to die there…
Roll of Honour ~ Camborne School of Mines RFC
Coming soon…a major new study…
My most recent…
Cornish Sporting Heroes, #7: Ken Plummer
Sport on the Dole: Cornwall’s Unemployed Rugby Clubs
John Jackett’s Ghost: Cornish Rugby and the 1928 County Championship
Cornish Rugby’s England Trialists, 1919 to 1939
Fore Street, Redruth, 1870s. From Kresen Kernow, ref. corn0584
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Terry Bracher, Judging Panel, Alan Ball Local History Awards, 2024
