As is the case every year, there will be respects paid before our home game that falls closest to the 11 November date. Hence, the Premier League match against Leicester City on Sunday 10 November will be the 2024/25 game in question.
Here, with the help of the Manchester United Museum at Old Trafford, we pay tribute to the men who played for our football club and then perished in war...
BOER WAR
Driver 12690 Gilbert Godsmark | Army Service Corps (att. 75th Battery Royal Field Artillery) | Newton Heath 1900
Although he wasn’t a serving soldier when he joined Newton Heath, Godsmark was called up just months later as a former soldier at a time of national emergency.