1918–19 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season January 2022 February 2015 Chelsea 1918–19 David Calderhead Claude Kirby Stamford Bridge London Combination 6th London Victory Cup Winners Joe Smith (21) 6–0 v Clapton Orient(12 October 1918) 2–6 v Fulham(1 March 1919) _chelsea1907h _2bluestripes 0000FF FFFFFF 0000FF ffffFF 000000 _chelsea1905a _2_stripes_white FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF 0000ff 1917–18 1919–20 The 1918–19 season was Chelsea Football Club's thirteenth 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 finished 6th in the league, but did win the London Victory Cup.https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eng19.html England 1917/18 10 January 2022 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) Former Chelsea player Philip Smith was killed in action whilst fighting in the Western Front on 29 September 1918.https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/philip-smith-service-record/ Philip Smith | Service Record Football and the First World War en 9 March 2019 George Lake died of wounds on 6 November 1918, five days before the armistice, two days after his battalion's attempt to cross the Sambre–Oise Canal near Frasnoy, France. George Lake – Chelsea FC and the First World War http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/george-lake-chelsea/ Football and the First World War 12 January 2016 He was buried in Frasnoy Communal Cemetery. CWGC – Casualty Details http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/582276/LAKE,%20G%20A www.cwgc.org 12 January 2016 Lake was one of the two last English footballers to die in the war, dying on the same day as Edward Thompson.29 September 2016 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-legend-lake-stunned-8124285 Man City legend Lake stunned to discover First World War link 17 November 2014 Brennan Stuarthttps://www.chelseafc.com/en/history/more-history/World-War-I chelseafc.com Chelsea in the First World War 10 January 2022 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 1918–19 season at stamford-bridge.com 1918-19 Category:English football clubs 1918–19 season