Walter_Sidebottom

Walter Sidebottom

Walter Sidebottom

English footballer


Walter Sidebottom (1 February 1921 – 23 October 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers.[1]

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Personal life

Sidebottom served as an able seaman in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[2] Posted aboard HMS Charybdis, he was killed in action when the ship was sunk by German torpedo-boat destroyers at the Battle of Sept-Îles on 23 October 1943.[3] Sidebottom is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.[2]

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References

  1. Walter Sidebottom at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. "Casualty Details: Walter Sidebottom". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. Rippon, Anton (2011). Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War. Cheltenham: The History Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7524-7188-4.

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