SAINTS historian David Bull is delivering a talk tomorrow at the Civic Centre Lecture Theatre called ‘Saints at war: what happened to Southampton’s Footballers in the First World War’.

The event is part of the ‘WE MARCH ON: Southampton Football Club, then and now’ exhibition at the SeaCity Museum.

And you can get two tickets for the price of one if you book to hear the talk at 3pm today, as admission to the talk includes entry to the exhibit.

Bull, who has documented the history of Saints since 1998, will be discussing how Fred Costello became the first ex-Saint to be killed in action on Monday, 19 December 1914.

It will also detail how boy-soldier Bert Shelley from Romsey developed with the Hampshire Regiment in India and with the Wilts Regiment in Pakistan into a record-breaking Saints footballer.

The historical talk includes a story of Cecil Christmas, a Banister Court pupil who had become a successful Southampton hotelier after two spells with the club.

Christmas’s great-nieces will be in attendance and will bring his enlistment penny which he received from the King.

Bull will also reveal how Saints had to find guest players to make up their war-time numbers.

He will go into detail about the way Southampton used the boilermakers arriving at Harland & Wolff shipyards and from the air mechanics stationed at the Netheravon military camp.

The exhibition is open until Sunday, 28 October, having opened in April.