The club will unveil memorial plaques ahead of their game at Cliftonhill on November 11
A Lanarkshire football club are honouring eight former players who were killed in action during World War I by creating a memorial area at their ground, to be opened on Armistice Day.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Rovers’ war memorial project has been led by club historian Brian Nugent, who specialises in researching the team’s first four decades and has written a series of matchday programme articles about the former players who gave their lives during the 1914-1918 conflict.
They include Private Jimmy Conlin, a left winger and goalscorer during Rovers’ winning “purple patch” from 1901 to 1904, who later played for England in their 2-1 defeat of Scotland before a world record crowd of 102,741 at Ibrox, and became only the second £1000 player in transfer history with a subsequent move to Manchester City.
Brian said: “We stumbled across the first few by accident; we thought there were two former Rovers players who had been killed in the war, but that then became eight and there might even be more that we’re just not aware of yet.
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