St Cuthberts Athletic FC

Category

Library Item

Item no

33856

Title

St Cuthberts Athletic FC

Description

Alexander Henderson, Bill's Great Uncle with fellow team members of St Cuthbert's Athletic, Leith Mid week League. Alexander is seated 1st left in strip

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1912

Size

8.8 x 14.1 cm

Type

Photograph; Postcard

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall

The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.

Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.

Bill's Great-uncle Alexander Henderson, born in 1890, was employed by St Cuthbert's Co-operative as an assistant grocer and played in their football team. It's possible he joined a "pals battalion", a group of men from the same workplace or football team who enlisted together. He joined the Seaforth Highlanders and after training landed in Boulogne in May 1915. He died of wounds at the Battle of Loos on 12th October 1915 aged 25.

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Clothing and dress > Garments > Sports strips

Clothing and dress > Garments > Suits

People > Adults > Men

Places > Edinburgh areas > Leith

Places > Scotland

Sport and leisure > Activities > Football