Road to Remembrance | Sportsmen play the game

By Michael Grealy
Updated December 29 2017 - 11:55am, first published 8:30am
NEW TEST: The AIF Forces cricket team in 1919 included future Test players Bert Oldfield, Jack Gregory, Herbie Collins, Nip Pellew and Johnny Taylor.  PHOTO: AWM D00685
NEW TEST: The AIF Forces cricket team in 1919 included future Test players Bert Oldfield, Jack Gregory, Herbie Collins, Nip Pellew and Johnny Taylor. PHOTO: AWM D00685

Today’s sport coaches risk criticism if they equate sport with sacrifice in war, yet 100 years ago recruiting campaigns actively linked the two in an effort to encourage enlistment.

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