The Tom Sephton Memorial Trophy in aid of Help for Heroes.

On Saturday the 18th of September Crosfields ARLFC and the Military community are celebrating the life of a true hero, a soldier, a rugby league player, a son, brother and friend.

Tom Sephton was 20 and a soldier in the 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), he came from Great Sankey in Warrington and he lived for his rugby league.

On Monday 5 July 2010, Private Thomas Sephton died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, of wounds sustained during service in Afghanistan.

A Crosfields ARLFC Select team will host The Army RL Select team in 80 minutes of Rugby League in memory of Private Tom Sephton.

The Tom Sephton Memorial Trophy will be played for in aid of Help for Heroes, and will kick off at 3

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The Army Rugby League has deemed that The Tom Sephton Memorial Trophy match is of a much greater importance than initially announced. The Director of Army Community Rugby League, Major Richard Naivalurua, has stated that it deserves a MUCH higher profile.

To that end, The original Crosfields ARLFC opposition, A Royal Engineer Select 13 Team, has now been stood down, in their place a Full Strength ARMY Rugby League Select 13 will now take their place on the field.
Players in the ARMY Select side are coming from all over the UK, Northern Ireland and Europe and will feature soldiers from countries even further afield, of Fiji, South Africa and Australia.

Brigadier Andrew Sharpe OBE – The Colonel of the MERCIAN Regiment, (The regiment of the late Tom Sephton) will be amongst the military dignitaries in attendance – and will be bringing his ‘boots along in order to take part in the match himself! (Post match he will be amongst those presenting awards to the teams.)
This in itself is a major honour – it seems that Brigadier Sharpe may be the highest ranking military officer to ever play for an ARMY rugby representitive side!

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Warrington Wolves RLFC have very kindly allowed Crosfields ARLFC to look after the CARNIEGE CHALLENGE CUP for a few hours on the day of the match.
The Cup will be on display outside of the Crosfields Clubhouse from 11

Along with all of the above the Big Crosfields Raffle has made a reappearance. Along with the usual array of top quality prizes on offer – signed Superleague and Championship players Rugby shirts, signed rugby balls and much much more, the star prize is a pair of VIP Corperate Tickets for the Superleague grand Final!!

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