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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:40 am Post subject: WW1 & Shinty |
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Ive just received my copy of the WFA Bulletin - March 2014: and SCOTLAND NORTH chairman -Derek Bird has done a write up on the recent talks and he mentions the talk by
HUGH DAN MacLENNAN, Writer and well known sports commentator (BBC Alba ) and he talked on SHINTY in the Great War .
Being young , fit and patriotic many SHINTY players joined the army , a good number of them joining the 4th CAMERON HIGHLANDERS who suffered very heavily at Festubert in May 1915 . Many others were recruited into the LOVAT SCOUTS as Lord Lovat recognised the qualities of a the team spirit within shinty and used them in small tight knit groups , frequently consisting of players from the same team ,for scouting . A great number of players were killed and at the end of the war the sport was effectively moribund due to their being so few players returning home , but again Lord Lovat stepped in to revive SHINTY and today it is thriving again .
This little known aspect of the Great War had a profound effect on both the sport and the small Scottish communities where it was played .
( I did not think or realise that this was the case and a good story brought to the fore by Hugh Dan MacLENNAN )
patrick w anderson
(not a shinty player !) |
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