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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Miller, who had also served in World War I. He said he had 'umpired in matches in many lands and
never missed the opportunity to advertise the Australian game of football by arranging matches
under all sorts of conditions:" For many soldiers in the Middle East, football and sport were so
intertwined with war that the Australian 9th Division adopted the football cry, 'Up there, Cazaly; as
its war cry shouted by soldiers going into combat in places such as Tobruk. Among the soldiers in the
Middle East there appear to have been a number of supporters from player Roy Cazaly's old club, the
South Melbourne Football Club. They seemed to have been to the fore in promoting the sport's cry as
a battle cry.

South Melbourne great Roy Cazaly takes one of his iconic one-handed marks.

The Victorian Football League even received correspondence from captured Australians in German
prisoner of war camps telling them of games of Australian rules played in the camps. One letter from
a Corporal George Thompson in September 1942 expressed his pride in Australian sporting prowess
among the prisoners of war. Thomson wrote that the Aussies were well to the front at a sports
meeting held here He expressed his pleasure that Australian rules football was played in the camp
and mentioned two prisoner of war players who had previously played in the Melbourne football
competitions, Alfred Ludlow and Frederick William Pascoe. His letter ended with him expressing the
desire for the Victorian Football League to keep playing its major competitions: ‘Tell the boys to
carry on, as we are keeping our tails up.’”

Kevin Blackburn, War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider