Leyton Orient Football Club | 17th Pals' Battalion Band

17th Pals’ Smash Attendance Figures At The O’s!

21 April, 201822 April, 2018 Bugler

The 17th Pals’ Battalion Band played in front of their biggest attendance to day when over five thousand people witnessed a first-class performance by the band – to be exact, 5166 cheered and clapped as stirring marches such as Bridlington, Shamrock and Officer Cadet were played. On a unseasonably hot scorching day, the 17th Pals’ commemorated and in some ways re-enacted Clapton Orient’s final league game of the season on 24th April 1915, when the team, having just beaten Leicester Fosse, change into their uniforms and march round the pitch…

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Acts of Remembrance at the O’s

10 March, 201822 April, 2018 Bandmaster

Each year and further to the research undertaken by Steve Jenkins on Clapton Orient’s service and sacrifice in the Great War, Leyton Orient hold an Act of Remembrance on the pitch at half-time should the O’s have a home fixture on the weekend of Remembrance Sunday. The interest and support shown, not only by the football club, but also the many thousands that have witnessed this important event is evident by the close attention and respect shown by all those in attendance. Over the years, family members of the Clapton…

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LOFC Tribute

5 January, 201829 March, 2018 Bugler

Leyton Orient Football Club has a proud history, none more so than when O’s players, staff and officials, along with supporters joined-up en masse into the 17th Middlesex – The Footballers’ Battalion in the early months of the Great War. It is well documented that three Clapton Orient players – as the Club was known at the time, lost their lives during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 – William Jonas, Richard McFadden and George Scott. Thirteen others were wounded, including the goal-keeper Jimmy Hugall who was wounded three…

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Remembrance Sunday 2017

12 November, 201722 April, 2018 Bandmaster

Remembrance Sunday saw the band assist the Leyton Branch of the Royal British Legion with its Act of Remembrance in Coronation Gardens, Leyton, after which it lead the parade to the Parish Church. This is something the band has done for many years and it is always a popular event, particularly as the band is invited to attend the Legion’s HQ for lunch! Later that day, the buglers and other members of the band who were available for support, drove up to Epping to assist Epping Upper Clapton Rugby Club…