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Colonial rugby... Tunisia, 1908



Sean no longer has the monoply of "Colonial Rugby"... ;-) I have been gathering images of "colonial" rugby under French ruling for some time, and it's quite amazing to find evidence of rugby games in countries that you wouldn't have suspected... Indochina (VietNam), Marocco, Ivory Coast, Senegal... or Tunisia today.

This postcard, dated 1908, shows "Rugby Club Marine Sidi Abdallah" (i.e. Navy Rugby Club) - a French Navy camp in former Ferryville (now Menzel Bourguiba), near Tunis. (large pic here)

Nice zoom on the team captain... "Maori" ball, "anchor" jersey and... splendid French moustaches !





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Too many memories after such a post and these pictures... my grand father family used to live near Ferryville and such a large family as they were (mostly boys, 15 of them !), they might have known some of these fellows.
I have to go back to Marseilles and peruse the old pictures and see if I can find out something as I know the kids used to play rugby in the local team.

Bisous !!!

Incroyable ! je n'ai malheureusement pas le nom des joueurs, sauf à préciser que cette carte est signée Fredy à destination d'un M.Chenault en Bourgogne...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugby_pioneers/2395840492/sizes/l/

je suis régulièrement contacté par des personnes que leur recherche généalogique a fait atterrir ici... ça me donne souvent l'occasion de faire plaisir aux gens en leur donnant des photos du grand-oncle et en leur donnant du contexte sportif... et j'adore ça ! Il m'est même arrivé de rapprocher des cousins éloignés qui ne se connaissaient pas (certes des Irlandais dont les fratries étaient aussi grandes que celle de ton grand-père... sur plusieurs générations)

et si en plus, ces personnes ont encore quelques trésors de famille dans leurs armoires... l'historien-collectionneur-amateur en salive déjà ;-)

La bise !

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