Salisbury Club Skittle Team, 1914-15

Postcard - W.G. Busby photographer. Salisbury Club Skittle Team, 1914-1915, winners of the Goldstein Cup.

Top row - W. Clarke, E. Wilks, J Mould, J. Cartright, Miss Russell, J. Richards, G. Payne, T. Williams, S. R. Cox
Second row - F. Morgan, W. Jones, A. Marks, I. Yeates, Mrs. G. Gale (Stewardess), W. E. Baker, W. Southall, F. Davies
Bottom Row - W. Jones, F. Elson, J. Evans, W. Edwards (Captain), A. Noakes, B. Skidmore, C. Griffiths
Master Ivor Gale and Master Trevor Gale

The club was located at 276 Corporation Road.

There was an interesting short article in the Western Mail, 21 June 1915, mentioning the club:-

SAVED BY A PACK OF CARDS.
A pack of cards sent from the Salisbury Club. Newport, to Private Saunderson, of the South Wales Borderers, has been instrumental in saving the life of a comrade. They were lent by Saunderson to another borderer named Hodson (also member of the Salisbury Club) as he was going into the firing line. Hodson put them in his left breast pocket, and states that whilst was in the trenches a shell burst, killing two and wounding four of his comrades, and one of the splinters, a half inch by a quarter inch, became embedded in the cards. The bit of shrapnel and the cards have been sent to Mrs. Gale the stewardess of the club.

Postcard from the private collection of Patrick White.