Sidney Pugh
| Sidney Pugh | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Sidney James Pugh | |
| birthday | October 10, 1919 | |
| place of birth | Welling , England | |
| date of death | April 15, 1944 | |
| Place of death | at Abbots Bromley , England | |
| position | External rotor (left) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1936-1944 | Arsenal FC | 1 (0) |
| 1936-1937 | → FC Nunhead (loan) | |
| 1937-1938 | → Margate FC (loan) | 32 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Sidney James Pugh (* 10. October 1919 in Welling , † 15. April 1944 in Abbots Bromley ) was an English football player in the service of Arsenal FC .
Career
Sidney Pugh signed on April 26, 1936 as an amateur with Arsenal FC and spent the following season 1936/37 at least temporarily with FC Nunhead in the Isthmian League and traveled with the club over Easter 1937 for a few friendly games to northern France. The season 1937/38 he spent at FC Margate , the official training club (in English nursery club ) of FC Arsenal, in the Kent League . Pugh completed all 42 competitive games of the club this season and won in addition to the league championship also the game for the championship of the Southern League against Ipswich Town , from which Margate had withdrawn after the preseason.
Immediately after the end of the season, he signed a professional contract with Arsenal FC on May 7, 1938. In the following years Pugh played regularly for the reserve team in the Southern League and the London Combination , before he came on April 8, 1939 ( Good Friday ) in a 2-1 away win against Birmingham City for his only appearance in the Football League First Division . Pugh was also scheduled for the following home game against Blackpool FC on Easter Monday and was included in the pre-printed stadium brochure, but a broken leg in the game against Birmingham made it impossible. Only a few months later, the outbreak of World War II caused regular gaming to cease. In the war-related substitute competitions he played for the first time on September 28, 1940 as a guest player for Bradford City in the regional Wartime League , in the seasons 1942/43 and 1943/44 he also came to 39 missions (3 goals) for Northampton Town .
Pugh was as Flying Officer (roughly equivalent to the rank of lieutenant ) on the RAF -Stützpunkt Hixon stationed when he on 15 April 1944 aboard a Vickers Wellington was a night training flight. A few minutes after take-off, the plane crashed as a result of a collision with a hill near a hamlet near Abbots Bromley ; none of the five crew members survived the accident. Pugh was buried in the family grave in Llanharan, Wales ; he was one of nine Arsenal players who died while serving in the Second World War.
literature
- Jeff Harris: Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports Publications, London 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 , pp. 101 .
Web links
- Biography on bantamspast.co.uk ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Casualty Details - PUGH, SIDNEY JAMES ( Memento from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pugh, Sidney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pugh, Sidney James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Welling (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1944 |
| Place of death | at Abbots Bromley |