I work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and am creating a website, supported by the FA, Premiership, PFA, Football Foundation etc. and due to be launched for this year's remembrance time - November.
‘The Glory Days’ will be very much an interactive website. It’s aimed particularly at lads who don’t do so well with traditional learning methods. The idea is to use football as a means to spark their interest – in the history of the two world wars, the contribution and sacrifices that so many men and women made, (perhaps even members of their own family) and the importance of remembering them with respect – which is, of course, what the Commonwealth War Graves Commission sets out to do.
In a lively and engaging way, we’ll be telling some of the stories of footballers who served and died, and some football-related war stories.
The site is not intended to be academic. It is created primarily to engage, entertain and inform. If some of our target audience then go on to further research as a result of what they’ve seen, then we’ll be doubly satisfied!