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Posted Apr 16, 2010 - 7:32 AM
By Mr Dandalooa
The Subiaco Football Club will honour the Anzacs during round 6 against East Perth on Saturday April 24 marking the 13 th year the club has commemorated Australian diggers.
The Lions club has built up a tradition of commemorating Anzac Day, the highlight of being the awarding of the Andrew Christie Cup to the Subiaco player who most epitomises the Anzac spirit.
Andrew Christie played 44 WAFL games for Subiaco from 1909 to 1912, and he captained the team in 1910.
In the first volume of Dr Ken Spillman’s history of the Subiaco Football Club, ‘Diehards’, Christie is described as “reliable back man’.
At the outbreak of the World War I in 1914 the footy player enlisted in the Western Australia 16th Battalion and landed at Gallipoli on the very first Anzac Day, April 25 1915.
He survived the landing and before very long was sent to the most vulnerable and deadly position in the ANZAC Sector known as Quinn’s Post, located at the head of Monash Gully.
If Quinn’s Post was overrun the Turks would be able to drive the Anzac’s into the Aegean Sea. The Turkish and Australian trenches were only a matter of metres apart.
On the night of Sunday 2nd May 1915 the 16th Battalion attacked a Turkish hill position known as Baby 700. 320 Anzacs were killed.
It has since been referred to as Bloody Sunday.
More diggers were killed on this night than were killed at “The Charge at The Nekâ€, featured in Peter Weir’s film “Gallipoli†starring Mel Gibson.
Private Christie was hit in the leg and sent a message back to his lines through his friend, reading: ‘Please fetch me in. I’m slowly bleeding to death.’ His body was never recovered.
The Andrew Christie Anzac Cup is presented to a footballer from the Subiaco Football Club who best exemplifies the legendary qualities of the Anzac spirit, displaying great courage, endurance, initiative, discipline, and mateship.
The award is presented by Christie’s great nephew, Len Christies at the game.
The Andrew Christie Cup is held in extremely high regard within the Subiaco Football Club ranks, and the last seven players to win the award are all premiership players.
