Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Miscellaneous memorials -
- Isle of Wight Memorial Cup -

THE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES WAR MEMORIAL CUP
PRESENTED BY THE
OFFICERS, W.O.s N.C.O.s AND RIFLEMEN
OF THE
1ST BATT. THE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES
TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
MAY 1920

inscriptions of winning teams not recorded here

ROLL OF HONOUR.

O valiant hearts, who to your glory came
Thro' dust of conflict and thro' battle flame :
Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,
Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

We publish below as full a list as possible of the Island Footballers who have made the great sacrifice in the unparalleled World War of 1914-19. The figures in parentheses are those of the Players who served or are still serving. Incomplete as we fear the Roll of Honour is, it is one on reading which Island Footballers have every reason to be thrilled with pardonable pride. If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is equally true that the inspiration to "play the game" to the finish, which so splendidly characterised our heroic dead, was largely learnt on the football grounds of the Wight. May the younger generation of players emulate their glorious example both in carrying on the game they loved so well and in nobly playing their part "in the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life."