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Jersey

CIC

W C Ramsey

1946-1947

Jersey, Middlesex Counties, 1945-1947 season. Thin blue/white hoops with combined Middlesex Counties RFC and Paris team motif on breast. Black number "1" on white rectangle on back.

This is a Middlesex Counties jersey, probably from their first tour abroad in 1946-47 when they played Paris and A S Roanne (situated in the Loire). Both matches were lost. It was presented to Swansea RFC by W C ('Bill') Ramsey, who was Hon. Secretary of Middlesex Counties Rugby Union from 1946 to 1950. Middlesex also toured in France during 1951, 1953, 1954 and 1956. It will be noted that the traditional Midland Counties scimitar motif is deliberately upside-down in this example.

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