Harry Bamford (football player, 1914)

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Harry Bamford
Personnel
Surname Harry Frank Ernest Bamford
birthday April 8, 1914
place of birth Kingston upon Thames ,  England
date of death June 4, 1949
Place of death Rochdale ,  England
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Ealing Youth Club
1936 FC Hayes
1936-1946 Brentford FC 0 (0)
1946-1947 Brighton & Hove Albion 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Harry Frank Ernest Bamford , MBE (born April 8, 1914 in Kingston upon Thames , Surrey , † June 4, 1949 in Rochdale , Lancashire ) was an English football player .

Career

Bamford was already in his mid-twenties when he first appeared in higher-class football in the war-related substitute competitions. In addition to sporadic appearances for Brentford FC , where he had been registered as an amateur since the mid-1930s at the latest, and rose to professional level in 1936, he was also a regular guest player at Aldershot FC, particularly in the 1940/41 season . During World War II he served as a warrant officer in the Royal Army Service Corps . He was mentioned twice in battle reports ( Mentioned in Despatches ) and was later named Member of the Order of the British Empire .

After the end of the war, Bamford continued to belong to Brentford FC and entered the FA Cup 1945/46 in March 1946 - the Football League did not start again until the 1946/47 season - in the two quarter-finals against Charlton Athletic (3: 6 and 1: 3) on his two only competitive appearances for the West London club. A little later he helped out on loan at Colchester United for a game in the London Senior Cup .

In June 1946 Bamford moved to the south coast of England to the third division Brighton & Hove Albion . Although actually a defender, he made his debut for Brighton on the right wing and was also called up once as a center forward. After a total of eight missions, he was not committed beyond the end of the season and left the club in May 1947. Bamford was killed in an accident in 1949.

literature

  • Tim Carder, Roger Harris: Albion A – Z - A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC Goldstone Books, Brighton 1997, ISBN 0-9521337-1-7 , pp. 21 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Harry Bamford
  2. ↑ a b c hyufc.com: AZ of Hayes FC - Bacon - Bandy , accessed May 1, 2017
  3. ↑ MR H. BAMFORD AND MISS SQUIRE . In: Middlesex County Times , July 17, 1937, p. 1.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ See Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939–45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X .
  5. ↑ forces-war-records.co.uk: Record Details for Harry Frank Ernest Bamford (Royal Army Service Corps)
  6. ↑ brentfordfchistory.co.uk: Profile: Harry Bamford ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ coludata.co.uk: Players: Harry Bamford
personal data
SURNAME Bamford, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamford, Harry Frank Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Thames
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1949
Place of death Rochdale