The Ontario Hockey League’s Kitchener Rangers continued a long-standing custom over the weekend with the most recent version of their Remembrance Day jerseys.
The Rangers donned the twentieth version of their Remembrance Day jerseys on Sunday, November 9, once they hosted the Kingston Frontenacs on the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium — the crew’s final dwelling recreation earlier than the vacation.
This time round, the Rangers marked the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Second Battle of Ypres within the First World Conflict, which was fought in April and Might of 1915 and was the primary time poison fuel assaults had been used within the conflict. It additionally honoured the poem “In Flanders Fields,” which Canadian medical officer Lt.-Col. John McCrae wrote in 1915 after serving within the Second Battle of Ypres and different operations. The poem stays a poignant reminder of the horrors of conflict and a staple of Remembrance Day ceremonies to this present day.
The crest on the entrance of the Rangers’ newest jerseys ties immediately into the Second Battle of Ypres. It depicts the St. Julien Canadian Memorial in Langemark, Belgium, which is often known as “The Brooding Soldier.” Sitting inside a navy blue circle on the entrance of the sunshine gray jersey, the monument is surrounded by purple poppies “symbolizing McCrae’s timeless phrases and the enduring spirit of remembrance.”
One other purple poppy sits on the left chest, over the participant’s coronary heart. Captain’s and alternate captain’s letters sit under the poppy. The shoulders are navy blue with a white define, and navy blue and white stripes run across the sleeves and waist. The collar is mild gray with a navy blue insert on the entrance. Names and numbers on the again and sleeves are single-layer navy blue.
The fitting shoulder has the Rangers’ main emblem, whereas a particular maple leaf patch sits on the left shoulder. It has the quantity “110” inside, and the highest of the leaf is formed like a torch in direct reference to a line in “In Flanders Fields”: To you from failing arms we throw / The torch; be yours to carry it excessive.
Sport-worn and game-issued jerseys are presently being auctioned off on-line by way of DASH, with bids closing at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 12. Proceeds from the public sale will profit the the 78th Fraser Highlanders Fort Conestoga Garrison and the Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund.
