Harry Bamford (football player, 1886)

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Harry Bamford
Personnel
Surname Harold Walley Bamford
birthday 4th quarter 1886
place of birth Sculcoates ,  England
date of death November 26, 1915
Place of death Le Touquet ,  France
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1907-1908 Bitter Guild
1908-1911 Southampton FC 7 (0)
1912-1914 FC Glossop 14 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Harold Walley "Harry" Bamford (* 4th quarter 1886 in Sculcoates near Kingston upon Hull , † November 26, 1915 in Le Touquet ) was an English football player .

Career

Bamford, who worked as a wage payer in the Port of Southampton, played in the 1907/08 season for Bitterne Guild , a Southampton suburban club, in the Hampshire League . In the summer of 1908 he joined Southampton FC and subsequently played mostly for their reserve team in the Hampshire League, but in the next three years came as a substitute for John Robertson and Albert Trueman on the outside runner positions also occasionally for the first team in the Southern League used.

From October 1912 he played reamateurised in the Football League Second Division for Glossop FC . As a replacement for Jimmy Carney , he came to a total of 14 league appearances in the seasons 1912/13 and 1913/14 . In his debut, a 3-0 home win against Clapton Orient in January 1913, the Athletic News ruled that Bamford had "fully justified its lineup". In the autumn of 1913, the club was investigated by the Football Association and Bamford also had to testify before a commission because numerous players officially registered as amateurs were given well-paid jobs in the company of the club chairman of Glossop and thus undermined the amateur regulation. The club was fined £ 100.

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War , Bamford joined the British Army and initially served in the Royal Irish Regiment in France. In August 1915 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and transferred to King's Shropshire Light Infantry . Bamford was being treated in a Red Cross hospital in Le Touquet for injuries sustained in combat operations near Proven when he died of septic poisoning on November 26, 1915 . He is buried in the British War Cemetery in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais department .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gary Chalk, Duncan Holley, David Bull: All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC . Hagiology Publishing, Southampton 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926864-0-6 , pp. 7 .
  2. ^ Garth Dykes: Glossop FC in the Football League: A Complete Record and Who's Who 1898-1915 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2013, ISBN 978-1-905891-80-1 , pp. 25 .
  3. ↑ HARD GAME WELL WON. . In: Athletic News , January 27, 1913, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
  4. ↑ FA INQUIRY INTO GLOSSOP'S AFFAIRS. . In: Derby Daily Telegraph , August 29, 1913, p. 2.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ THE GLOSSOP INQUIRY. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , September 10, 1913, p. 8.  (link with costs)
  6. ↑ THE AFFAIRS OF THE GLOSSOP CLUB. . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , October 10, 1913, p. 10.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ GLOSSOP PLAYER'S COMMISSION. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , September 11, 1915, p. 8.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ DEATHS. . In: Hampshire Advertiser , December 4, 1915, p. 4.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ footballandthefirstworldwar.org: Harold Walley Bamford | Service Record , accessed July 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bamford, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamford, Harold Walley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between October 1886 and December 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Sculcoates
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1915
Place of death Le Touquet