Everton History 15comments | Jump to last This article may have been recategorised and is therefore no longer available at this URL. You can try to find the updated link in the article archive. Share article: Reader Comments (15) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer Tom Hughes 1 Posted 18/11/2016 at 09:29:04 Fantastic article. Thanks, Peter. Martin Nicholls 2 Posted 18/11/2016 at 09:38:02 And the FIFA clowns deem it an offence to honour all the brave men and women who fought and died for their country. Shame on them.Great article, Peter. Christine Foster 3 Posted 18/11/2016 at 11:40:14 Absolutely heartbreaking. Wonderful, sad and meaningful, all lost in the horrors so easily forgotten these days. I now live in France having moved here only a month ago, my links with New Zealand and Australia still strong, it fills me with pride and yet leaves me empty too. There are no winners or losers just good men and women on both sides trying to make sense of it all. They did their duty.God Bless them all. Ray Roche 4 Posted 18/11/2016 at 17:18:15 Excellent article, Pete, very moving.I've visited Thiepval memorial myself and the sheer size of it is astonishing. It brings it home when you realise that the lighter parts of it are stone and just covered with names.Christine, so you're now in France? North with a chance to see the Blues or further away? Andy Meighan 5 Posted 18/11/2016 at 17:28:22 Brilliant, brilliant stuff, Peter, and the attention to detail is amazing All them lives lost. I particularly loved that quote from Stalin: "One death is a tragedy; a million is just a statistic." Also I'll do my best to try and get a copy of Roose's biography. What a character he was. Thanks, Peter, for taking the time out to bring us that amazing story. Peter Mills 6 Posted 18/11/2016 at 22:27:12 Wonderful article, Pete. My grandad Charlie Mills was badly wounded at the Somme. My dad Charlie Mills navigated bombers for 4 years in WW2. They both survived, and I sat between them at the Charity Shield match at Goodison in 1963. I am looking forward in the next year or so to sitting at the match next to my grandson Charlie Mills. They fought for his freedom.Lest we forget. Don Alexander 7 Posted 18/11/2016 at 23:02:10 Thanks as ever to those responsible for this article and profound thanks to those who gave so much in the name of freedom.The whimsical part of my mind (and unless it was about Nyarko's best ever performance in an Everton shirt, I don't think that that word has ever been on TW before!) points out that I and many other regular contributors to this site are older now than most of the allegedly pig-thick "donkey" generals who led our young lions to their appalling deaths.Hmmmm! Christine Foster 8 Posted 18/11/2016 at 23:38:49 Ray, a bit further south of Nantes but have been back to see the boys a couple of times this season. Back in Liverpool again next week for a week and once more before Christmas to see the team again if I can. At least its not as far as Brisbane was! Anthony Hogan 9 Posted 19/11/2016 at 09:29:30 What a fantastic article. I enjoyed reading it. The trunk is an incredible look into the past. I was amazed to see the contents inside close hand as some look brand new and not a hundred years old. Meeting Egbert was wonderful and apart from the filming we also visited a number of places together around the Somme area to pay our respects to all. The trunk is an amazing story that Egbert shares with us so well. Ray Roche 10 Posted 19/11/2016 at 09:51:16 Christine, as you say, a bit closer than Brisbane. A fast horse up to Cherbourg, ferry across etc. Or is flying an option? Can't you fly direct with Easyjet? Good luck with getting tickets to see the Blues, I had a right job getting two for a mate and his little 7-year -old lad who is going for his first Goodison experience today. Let's hope for a good game and a good result. Jim Milner 11 Posted 21/11/2016 at 11:24:07 Excellent article Peter, I am researching different clubs called Everton for a future article I am writing. Can you help with the Everton New Zealand team please? Rob Sawyer 12 Posted 22/11/2016 at 15:13:37 Top quality research and writing Pete. Kudos to the ToffeeWeb editors too -– does any other club-orientated football site cover such a broad range of subject-matter (and so well)? Pete Jones 13 Posted 23/11/2016 at 15:09:20 Thanks for all the comments; as ever I really appreciate it.Jim; I have to confess to not knowing a great deal about Everton Auckland other than the military side. If you get to the match I'm usually at the Free School at the EFC Heritage Society stand, please come and have a chat and we can see what we can do. Patrick Murphy 14 Posted 23/11/2016 at 15:23:30 Jim (11) below is a link to a piece from the Echo that mentions an Aukland club. It might help and I hope it does. Everton War HeroesI also found this titbit relating to New Zealand and the Toffees. Everton, an English club, played two matches during its tour of New Zealand in 1987. They were invited to commemorate the centenary of the Auckland Football Association. At the time of the tour, Everton were the English champions. They were the first reigning English league champions to visit New Zealand since Manchester United in 1967.May I suggest the next time we win the League we stay away from New Zealand as both Everton and Manchester United went so long without winning it again after visiting as Champions – and of course our wait goes on. Patrick Murphy 15 Posted 23/11/2016 at 15:42:09 Perhaps this list of Provincial Champions 1892 - 1968 might also aid you in your research Jim.NZ Champions1892 Alliance Auckland 1893 Alliance Auckland 1894 Auckland United 1895 Auckland United 1896 Auckland United 1897 Auckland United 1898 Auckland United 1899 Auckland United 1900 Grafton AFC (Auckland)1901 Grafton AFC (Auckland)1902 North Shore AFC (Devonport)1903 YMCA Auckland 1904 Auckland Corinthians 1905 Auckland Corinthians 1906 North Shore AFC (Devonport) 1907 Auckland Corinthians 1908 Auckland Corinthians 1909 Auckland Corinthians 1910 Caledonian Auckland 1911 Ponsonby AFC (Auckland) 1912 Everton Auckland 1913 Everton Auckland 1914 Auckland Thistle 1915 Brotherhood Auckland Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. 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