Since Pat Tillman has been brought up, we should also mention the 16th Battalion (MacRae's Battalion) of the Royal Scots Regiment, which was composed of a number of football players from the Heart of Midlothian Football Club (the Hearts) in Edinburgh during the First World War.

See this site:

http://www.geocities.com/athens/pantheon/3828/

For more information about footballers from all the Scottish teams that fought in WWI.

And here is a story from the Scotsman about the Hearts & the 16th Battalion:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=687642004

Lest we forget,

Todd

(a Hearts supporter -- Up the Jambos!)