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Walter Sidebottom

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Walter Sidebottom
Personal information
Date of birth (1921-02-02)2 February 1921[1]
Place of birth Hunslet, England[1]
Date of death 23 October 1943(1943-10-23) (aged 22)
Place of death HMS Charybdis, English Channel
Position Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1941 Bolton Wanderers 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]

Personal life

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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]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bolton Wanderers 1938–39[1] First Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
Career total 1 0 0 0 1 0

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Walter Sidebottom at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. 1 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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