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MIDDLESBROUGH Football Club marked Armistice Day 2008 by paying tribute to eight former players who died as war heroes.

A short ceremony was held at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in memory of Andy Jackson, Henry Cook, Don McLeod, Archie Wilson, Bobby Atherton, Dick Wynn, David Murphy and Ralph Arran.

Each of the ex-Boro players laid down their lives for their country during the world wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45.

In recognition of their ultimate sacrifice, Boro have given each of them permanent memorials on the Boro Brick Road outside the Riverside Stadium, recording them as 'Boro players, war heroes'.

Former Boro stars including Alan Peacock, Gordon Jones and Jim Platt of the Middlesbrough Former Players Association joined club staff at the ceremony.

Also in attendance were representatives of Don McLeod's descendents who still live in the area. They included two of his great grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren.

Conducted by Eddie Cox of the Middlesbrough Branch of the Royal British Legion, the ceremony included the reading of the war poem In Flanders Fields by former Boro and England striker Alan Peacock.

Mr Cox read For The Fallen and the Kohima Epitaph either side of a minute's silence in memory of Boro's war heroes and the many Middlesbrough supporters who have lost their lives while serving their country.

A wreath of poppies was laid next to the Ayresome Park gates that all will have known well when serving the club before answering their country's call.

A place on the Brick Road alongside the names of more than 60 of the club's former stars and thousands of supporters is a fitting tribute to Boro's fallen heroes.

When Jackson, above, was killed at the front line in France in 1917 Boro and Scotland lost a player who many believed would go on to establish himself as one of the greats of the game.

An Ayresome Park terrace hero, the commanding centre-half was a kingpin in the 1913-14 Boro side that achieved a highest ever top flight placing of third in the old Division One.

England internationals George Elliott, Jacky Carr and Tim Williamson were all part of the Boro team.

After captaining the side in 1914-15, Jackson enlisted in the Army on the outbreak of war and rose to the rank of sergeant before his tragic death. He played 137 times for Boro.

Middlesbrough-born Cook, above, was a half-back who played 25 times for the club, standing in for Jackson during the successful 1913-14 season.

A sergeant in the 12th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, he was just 22 when he lost his life in France in January 1917, one of the thousands of Allied soldiers killed on the Somme.

Former Celtic and Scotland right-back Don McLeod, above, was a Boro team-mate of Jackson and Cook until his retirement from the playing side in 1914, having made 148 appearances for the club.

He briefly ran a Middlesbrough hotel before going off to war as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action in Dozinghem, Belgium, in October 1917.

Another Scot, Archie Wilson was another whose life and Boro career was tragically cut short by the events of the Great War.

The wing-forward scored four times in 23 games in 1914-15, his only season with Boro before the onset of war. Wilson was just 26 when he lost his life in 1916.

Another who lost his life in the First World War was Wales international Bobby Atherton, a Boro captain who had made 66 appearances for the club before leaving for Chelsea in 1906. Atherton died when his submarine was torpedoed in 1917.

Sergeant Dick Wynn survived the war, only to pass away in September 1919 after an operation on a war injury in Etaples, south of Bologne. Signed from Chester City, winger Wynn made seven appearances for Boro, scoring on his debut against Spurs in April 1914.