10 Things to Know about... Leyton Orient

I am accompanying my sister INGER to LONDON at year's end. You can learn more about my preparations on my companion blog, ERIK'S JOLLY OLD ALBION (link on the right).
Yesterday, we acquired tickets to a football match. We will see LEYTON ORIENT host SOUTHEND UNITED in League One (the third tier of English football).
Here are 10 THINGS TO KNOW about LEYTON ORIENT:
1. Leyton Orient is the second-oldest Football League club in London, after Fulham.
2. Until the 1960s, the club was known as "Clapton Orient," after its original East End home.
3. Current chairman Barry Hearn famously purchased the club for £5.
4. Orient have only spent one season in the English top flight, in 1962-63.
5. Orient have only reached the FA Cup semifinals once, in 1978.
6. The club were known simply as "Orient" from 1966-87. The name "Leyton Orient" was originally adopted at the conclusion of the Second World War.
7. More than 40 players and staff of Clapton Orient joined the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment en masse at the outbreak of the First World War.
8. Three of those players, Richard McFadden, George Scott and William Jonas, died as a result of injuries in the Battle of the Somme.
9. Although it seems like a case of myth making, some of McFadden's obituaries credit him with saving the life of a boy who was drowning in the River Lea and rescuing a man from a burning building.
10. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) became the first member of royalty to attend a football match when he witnessed Clapton Orient defeat Notts County, 3-0, on April 30, 1921.