Our starting point and effective ‘bible’ for this project, the ORG Williams ‘Outline History of Saracens F.C. (R.F.U.)’, cannot be leafed through, even in the most casual way, without stumbling across the mention of a Bongard. The first mention of a player by the name is in the 1884/1885 season – Mr. J.L. Bongard –…
The Saracens WW1 project is fuelled by a lot of hard work from everyone concerned in trying to trace the players who served in World War One, and more often than not the research is done from behind a desk with the aid of email, digitised records, telephones, and networking within the rugby business. But…
Born 15th Nov 1886 in St Pancras, London, Carl Joseph Barrett Buchheim was the son of Max Theodore Buchheim, a self-made restaurateur who arrived in Britain from Germany sometime before 1881 when he was working as a waiter in London. His wife and Carl’s mother, Eleanor, was from Bristol, and they married there in 1885.…
Frederick ‘Chappie’ Chapman first appears in our surviving Club records in the 1913-14 team photo, the last Saracens team to take the field until the 1919/1920 season. Wearing an early scrum cap, a dapper moustache, and standing next to CJB Buckheim on one side and the Honourable Treasurer J.G. Brodie on the other, he has…
