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RRFC News | Raith Rovers FC
Raith Rovers FC is proud to reveal its unique new away strip. It is a complete break from our traditional team colours, but is nevertheless dedicated to the club’s proud history and the sacrifice its players made during the Great War, whose centenary is being remembered this year.
In 1914 Sir George McCrae raised a battalion of sportsmen to fight for King and Country in World War 1. Seven Raith Rovers players (James H Logan, George McLay, Willie Porter, Willie Lavery, Jimmy Todd, Jimmy Scott and Jock Rattray) joined up along with a group of players of Heart of Midlothian FC and several other clubs. The battalion, the 16th Royal Scots, took part in actions including the Battle of the Somme and the push for Passchendale and three of our players (Todd, Scott and McLay) paid the ultimate sacrifice. At Contalmaison, in northern France, a memorial cairn for McCrae’s Battalion was erected in 2004 (pictured below). Ten other Raith Rovers players also enlisted for service in other regiments during the Great War.
The Contalmaison Cairn Memorial
This special commemorative shirt, in the colours of the Hunting Stewart tartan worn by the Royal Scots Regiment, marks the centenary of the formation of McCrae’s Battalion and Raith Rovers FC’s links with it. It honours all those who have served in our Armed Forces in conflicts since.
On the chest there will be a poignant one word message and a tribute to McCrae’s Battalion.
Our friends in sport, Heart of Midlothian FC led the way both in the formation of that battalion and, alongside the McCrae’s Battalion Trust, in establishing memorials both in Edinburgh and Northern France. Now we at Raith Rovers will signify our pride and our gratitude by this generation of our players proudly wearing these colours.
Launching the new kit, club chairman Turnbull Hutton commented, “We wanted to do something completely different for next season in terms of kit colours, but at the same time the board has been considering a suitable way to mark this centenary in an appropriate manner, so we have brought these two ambitions together with our new green and black strip. We hope that it captures the imagination of the Scottish footballing public and, through next season’s sports pages, that it ensures that we really do ‘remember’ the sacrifices of our players and so many others 100 years ago.“
The new away strip should be available in the Spring – in good time for summer holidays. We hope our supporters – and maybe even a wider audience than normal – will be proud to wear these the colours of the McCrae’s Battalion.
Lest we forget.
Raith Rovers FC is proud to reveal its unique new away strip. It is a complete break from our traditional team colours, but is nevertheless dedicated to the club’s proud history and the sacrifice its players made during the Great War, whose centenary is being remembered this year.
In 1914 Sir George McCrae raised a battalion of sportsmen to fight for King and Country in World War 1. Seven Raith Rovers players (James H Logan, George McLay, Willie Porter, Willie Lavery, Jimmy Todd, Jimmy Scott and Jock Rattray) joined up along with a group of players of Heart of Midlothian FC and several other clubs. The battalion, the 16th Royal Scots, took part in actions including the Battle of the Somme and the push for Passchendale and three of our players (Todd, Scott and McLay) paid the ultimate sacrifice. At Contalmaison, in northern France, a memorial cairn for McCrae’s Battalion was erected in 2004 (pictured below). Ten other Raith Rovers players also enlisted for service in other regiments during the Great War.
The Contalmaison Cairn Memorial
This special commemorative shirt, in the colours of the Hunting Stewart tartan worn by the Royal Scots Regiment, marks the centenary of the formation of McCrae’s Battalion and Raith Rovers FC’s links with it. It honours all those who have served in our Armed Forces in conflicts since.
On the chest there will be a poignant one word message and a tribute to McCrae’s Battalion.
Our friends in sport, Heart of Midlothian FC led the way both in the formation of that battalion and, alongside the McCrae’s Battalion Trust, in establishing memorials both in Edinburgh and Northern France. Now we at Raith Rovers will signify our pride and our gratitude by this generation of our players proudly wearing these colours.
Launching the new kit, club chairman Turnbull Hutton commented, “We wanted to do something completely different for next season in terms of kit colours, but at the same time the board has been considering a suitable way to mark this centenary in an appropriate manner, so we have brought these two ambitions together with our new green and black strip. We hope that it captures the imagination of the Scottish footballing public and, through next season’s sports pages, that it ensures that we really do ‘remember’ the sacrifices of our players and so many others 100 years ago.“
The new away strip should be available in the Spring – in good time for summer holidays. We hope our supporters – and maybe even a wider audience than normal – will be proud to wear these the colours of the McCrae’s Battalion.
Lest we forget.
