Oriental Rongotai Football Club
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ANZAC DAY | Lest we forget | Wartime History
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- The club's activities are severely restricted because of many members being called up for active service. The Rugby Union decides no unmarried man eligible for military service is allowed to take part in any rugby. A Senior team and two or three lower grade teams are fielded in this period and the club's Wednesday teamshares the Championship honours in 1914. Two hundred and eighty-nine Ories serve in the armed forces and of them 40 die on the battlefield and seventy are wounded. Thiry-five gain commission in the field.
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