Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Prim Media Primary media for this item. 6468 CINE only true Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Battle of the Somme Football Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived waltertull Language A language of the resource English Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource eulac3d Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6077 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,51.12736,1.321319; Description An account of the resource Billie (Wilfred) Nevill was educated at Dover College. He left university on 5th August 1914 and applied for a commission as soon as Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers to fight in the Great War.   In May 1916, Captain Nevill went home to England on leave. To provide his men with a familiar symbol from home he purchased two footballs - some say four - to take back to France. He hoped that his “team” would kick and dribble their way to the German trenches and so on to victory.    On the first of July 1916, the first day on the Battle of the Somme, Captain Nevill, commanding B Company in the 8th (Service) Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, issued each of his platoons with a football. He had offered a prize for the first man to score a goal into the German trenches.  At 7.27 am, he climbed out of the trench, kicked off one of the footballs and advanced. The attack lasted over nine hours, and only about 250 men reached Breslau Trench unwounded. Nevill was shot in the head and killed just outside the German wire, in the first five minutes of the battle. He was 21.   Two of the footballs were found the next day and returned to England. In Britain Nevill became a national hero standing for courage and strength of character, whilst in Germany his act was regarded as British madness.  The second football perished in a fire in 2015. Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 06/11/2020 Subject The topic of the resource CULTURAL HERITAGE,HISTORY,SOCIAL HISTORY Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 06/11/2020 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT