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Joseph Dines

Joseph Dines

English footballer

Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]

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He represented Great Britain as part of the England national amateur football team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.[2] He played all three matches.

Dines was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he worked as a school teacher alongside playing local football in the town.[3] He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor.[4] Dines later moved to the Ilford/South Woodford area, playing for local non-league club Ilford. Dines resisted attempts to become a professional, however played for Liverpool, Walthamstow Avenue and Millwall, as well as featuring for Norwich City and Woolwich Arsenal's reserves during his time at Lynn Town.[5] During the First World War, he served in the Army Ordnance Corps, the Middlesex Regiment, the Machine Gun Corps and latterly as a second-lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment.[3] He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Hagnicourt.[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Joseph Dines". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Joseph Dines". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. [3]
    Lakey, Chris (9 November 2018). "Norwich City's true heroes: the players who gave their lives in the First World War". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. [4]
    1901 census – 4 Whitefriars Terrace, South Lynn, Norfolk
  5. [5]
    "Joe Dines". Blue & Gold Supporters Trust. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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