Ninety years after he died for his country, Jack Harrison, a Rugby League hero and legend in the City of Hull, is to be immortalised at the Kingston Communications Stadium.
It was in the First World War Harrison proved his true bravery. He was Britain's only rugby player to be awarded the Victoria Cross after he gave his life trying to single-handedly destroy a machine-gun post.
On Tuesday 11th November, with members of ex-servicemen’s associations in attendance, Jack Harrison will be honoured with the dedication of a bronze memorial at the Kingston Communications Stadium. The Statue will be erected opposite the main West Stand reception of the building
The service will take place ahead of the official unveiling, which will be on Saturday 15th November at the Great Britain v Australia 2nd Ashes test match at the Stadium.
JACK HARRISON
Jack Harrison was born in 1890 in Hull and played his first match for Hull FC in 1912.
In the 1913/14 season he set a record for try scoring with 52 – a record which still stands to this day!
When the First World War started later that year, Jack joined the Hull Brigade of East Yorkshire Regiment and as a second lieutenant was posted to the Somme.
He received the Military Cross In 1917, but it was in the battle of Oppy Wood that he made the ultimate sacrifice, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for "conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice in attack".
