B.E.F. Cricketers.
A cricket match at Lord’s among heroes of the B.E.F, from Flanders was to have been played a Uw Weeks back. As gopn as one officer reached a London terminus he telephoned Sir Pelham Warner asking if silch a match could be arranged. “ Certainly,” was the reply. “ Come along when you like.” “ The cricket is not guaranteed to be first class, but it will be played in the right spirit, and that is all that matters,” comments an English writer.
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Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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82B.E.F. Cricketers. Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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