Saracens Pre-War Players Attend the 1926 Jubilee Dinner

The recent discovery of an original newspaper story covering the Saracens 50th Anniversary Jubilee Club Dinner has been very insightful. The detailed journalistic coverage of the gala evening, held at the famous Cafe Monico (on Tichborne Street, near what is now Piccadilly Circus), captures wonderfully the spirit of the evening via the speeches, the humour, the…

John Stanley Greer Goes to War…

War broke out at the height of J.S. Greer’s playing career at Saracens, as we have seen, where playing as 1st XV half-back, he was repeatedly identified as a leading member of the squad. Once war had been declared, Stanley (as he was known by his family) volunteered for active service at Shoreham on 12th…