WANDERERS players have paid their tributes to fallen First World War servicemen in a video of their trip to the Somme battlefields.

The entire playing squad, management team and chairman Andrew Howard all visited the trenches and battlefields of World War One last month.

As part of their two-day visit to the north of France the players laid a poppy tribute to former Wanderer James McDermott - who was killed in combat but whose body was never found - at the Thiepval Memorial.

They also visited the Footballers' Battalion Memorial at Longueval, which pays tribute to the 17th and 23rd Middlesex regiments. They were known as the Footballers' Battalions because of the number of professional players who represented them.

Joe Jacobson said of the visit: "It was a really moving experience, to see things that you wouldn't necessarily see anywhere else in the country.

"To see the vast fields and places where people fought, all in the name of their country, it makes you proud to be a Brit."

Team mate Paris Cowan-Hall added: "It taught me that a lot of people gave for people they didn't know. People were willing to lay their lives on the line."

Meanwhile Wanderers will publish a photo booklet with previously unseen images from the club’s recent trip to France.

They can be collected in return for a suggested donation of £2 from the Information Centre at Adams Park and the Royal British Legion's pop-up shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre, which is open from 10am-5pm each day until the end of November. Proceeds will go directly to the poppy appeal at the High Wycombe branch of the Royal British Legion.

A message from PFA chairman Gordon Taylor OBE and a foreword from Phil Stant and Andrew Riddoch, who hosted the squad on their tour, are also included.

Falklands War veteran Stant was a member of the SAS when he was bought out of the services by Hereford United before going on to play for ten other Football League clubs.