10 Not Out, Birmingham Hippodrome needs your help!

We need YOU…

On July 8th, 1914 it was just a typical village cricket match on a lazy summer’s afternoon at Sutton Coldfield Cricket Club. This match was like every other cricket match, except this one was special, it was the last to be played for four years. And for forty young men – it was the last one ever to be played.

World War One was to take its toll, like in many other village cricket teams – and we would like you to help us remember all those young men who lost their lives ‘making the supreme sacrifice’.

Sutton Coldfield Cricket Club (SCCC) held a special cricket match on 3 July between the present 2016 XI and the past XI of 2004 to commemorate those men, but we can do more.  SCCC had a special plaque which displayed the names of the fifty cricket players who went off to fight.  Sadly at some point this memorial was destroyed by vandals but we are going to present the club with a replacement sculpture that will be a memorial to the lost cricketers.  This will feature a roll call of members who fought but we don’t have all the names yet.  Do you have any photos taken at the Club that might show the original memorial? Even just a part of it could help us identify those soldiers. Do you know when the original memorial was destroyed?  Do you know of anyone from the club who went off to fight?

Working with the cricket club, the Royal Warwickshire Museum, Bishop Vesey School and the local community we are working to discover the names of all the players but photographs would speed the process up.

If you have any photos that might help or know any of the names of the men who went to fight, please contact us: jo.sccc@gmx.com  or  creative@birminghamhippodrome.com