Sydney Roosters 2024 Men's Wartime Anzac Round Jersey
- Product Code: SR24JSA11M
As the Club prepares for the 22nd annual Anzac Day Cup clash with St George Illawarra, we continue a proud chapter of our history through our light blue - now known as Bondi Blue - Wartime jersey, one that represents wartime hardships, on-field success and signalled the end of the Second World War. With tensions high as ever at the peak of World War II as fear and doubt cast over the lives of Australians through the 1940s, Rugby League was continually at the heart of the wartime effort - and Eastern Suburbs were no different. Captain Ray Stehr retired in 1939 to enlist in the AIF, eventually making an emphatic return, the first-grade side competed in fundraising matches against representative army teams in July and September of 1942, while the number of Clubmen enrolling in the services while creating and supporting events to raise funds grew exponentially with each coming month. Even the iconic Bondi Beach was lined with double barbed wires to ward off potential invaders - a sign of the desperate measures set out to ensure the safety of Sydneysiders.
