Less than a year after the end of World War 2 rugby league’s Lions toured Australia and New Zealand - a tour that was made possible thanks to an aircraft carrier, a military train & the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
This week's ‘Rugby Reloaded’ tells the story of the incredible 1946 ‘Indomitables’, the tour that relaunched international rugby league and, in hindsight, was the last summer of unrivalled British dominance of the game.
The 1946 tourists take a break on their marathon train journey across the Nullaboor - the Bradford great Ernest Ward is centre looking at the photographer, Welsh scrum-half Dai Jenkins.