Charity Remembrance RL Matches

Established in 2013, the Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Services will play Myton Warriors AFLC in the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Cup with their Masters team playing Hull Warriors Masters in the Johnny Whiteley Memorial Trophy match.
This year’s Remembrance RL matches will take place at the Myton RL Grounds on Cranbrook Avenue on Saturday 9th November 2024. Masters teams kick-off at 12:30 with the Open Age match kicking off at 2pm.

All funds raised will be distributed between the Royal British Legion, MND Association (in memory of the late and great Rob Burrow) and Cobus supported charity for life, Hull4Heroes, with the target being to raise £500 for each charity.

As headline sponsor, we are very proud to once again support this well-attended rugby match.  Our contribution will go towards purchasing the match kits for the Hull and East Yorkshire Forces 1st team, and Master team with excess funds going directly to the three aforementioned charities. Shirt sales after the match will also be added to the charitable donations.

The event is the only Rugby League matches played where Forces heroes names adorn the shirts of the Combined Services teams including many who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation. This year, and moving forward, the team will include members of the Emergency Services who dedicate themselves to the service of their countrymen and women across the UK. 

We welcome as much support as possible for what we hope will be a record breaking year of monies raised.  

EVENT TIMETABLE

11:15 – Gates open

11:30 – Clubhouse open

12:15 – Last Post and Reveille

12:30 – Master KO for the Johnny Whiteley Remembrance Trophy

13:45 – Last Post and Reveille

14:00 – 1st Team KO for the Queen Elizabeth Remembrance Cup

16:00 – Post match presentations by the Lord Mayor of Hull and Admiral of the Humber

A £2 entry fee is taken at the gate to add to the charitable donations made on match day.

We will remember them.

For the Fallen; Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21st September 1914.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.

There is music in the midst of desolation

And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England's foam.