1917–18 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season January 2022 February 2015 Chelsea 1917–18 David Calderhead Claude Kirby Stamford Bridge London Combination 1st War Fund Cup Winners Bob Thomson (25) 7–0 v Fulham(30 March 1918) 1–4 v Arsenal(19 January 1918) _chelsea1907h _2bluestripes 0000FF FFFFFF 0000FF ffffFF 000000 _chelsea1905a _2_stripes_white FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF 0000ff 1916–17 1918–19 The 1917–18 season was Chelsea Football Club's twelfth year in existence. Due to the ongoing First World War, the Football League and the FA Cup were suspended so the club instead participated in the London Combination, an unofficial regional league mainly comprising teams from London. Results and statistics from these matches are not considered official. Chelsea won the London Combination for the second time in three years as well as the War Fund Cup.https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eng18.html England 1917/18 10 January 2022 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) Former Chelsea player George Kennedy, who was awarded both the Military Medal and Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry during the conflict, was wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres and subsequently died from his injuries on 16 November 1917.Former player George William Kennedy added to Brentford list of honour as Remembrance Sunday marked http://www.brentfordfc.co.uk//news/article/george-william-kennedy-remembered-09.11.14-2072361.aspx 10 January 2022 www.brentfordfc.co.uk 29 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160529144014/http://www.brentfordfc.co.uk/news/article/george-william-kennedy-remembered-09.11.14-2072361.aspx dead https://www.chelseafc.com/en/history/more-history/World-War-I chelseafc.com Chelsea in the First World War 10 January 2022 On 28 April 1918, Arthur Wileman, member of the Football Battalion, was killed along with two others during a reconnaissance patrol in the vicinity of the Elzenwalle Chateau, Ypres, West Flanders on 28 April 1918.Churchill Alexandra Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War Holmes Andrew 15 July 2015 The History Press 9780750965422 en His name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.877095 15 December 2015 Notes References Glanvill, Rick Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2006 0-7553-1466-2 Hockings, Ron 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006 External links 1917–18 season at stamford-bridge.com 1917–18 Category:English football clubs 1917–18 season