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Cyril Smith
Personal information
Full name Cyril C. Smith[1]
Date of birth 1893
Place of birth Knighton, Wales
Position(s) Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Aberdare Thursday
Newtown
1912–1913 Royal Welch Fusiliers
1913–1914 Aberdare
1914–1916 Croydon Common 17 (5)
1919–1920 Crystal Palace 7 (0)
1920–1923 Charlton Athletic 7 (0)
1923–1924 Guildford United 18 (6)
1924–1925 Nuneaton Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cyril C. Smith was a Welsh professional football inside left who played in the Football League for Charlton Athletic.[2][3][4][5]

Personal life

Smith served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers until 1913 and served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's 1st Football Battalion during the early years of the First World War.[6][7] He was gassed at Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme and was evacuated to a hospital in Liverpool.[1][8] Smith ended the war as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[9]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Croydon Common 1914–15[1] Southern League First Division 17 5 0 0 17 5
Crystal Palace 1919–20[10] Southern League First Division 7 0 0 0 7 0
Charlton Athletic 1920–21[1] Southern League English Section 21 6 5 3 26 9
1921–22[1] Third Division South 7 0 0 0 7 0
Total 28 6 5 3 33 9
Guildford United 1923–24[1] Southern League Eastern Division 18 6 4 1 22 7
Career total 70 17 9 4 79 21

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Croydon Common Football Club Biographies" (PDF). Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  3. ^ "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Crystal Palace FC". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Cyril Smith". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Smith Cyril Image 1 Charlton Athletic 1921". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  7. ^ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  8. ^ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 146. ISBN 978-0857330772.
  9. ^ "Cyril Smith | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  10. ^ King, Ian (April 2012). Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–2011. The Derby Books Publishing Company. pp. 256–257. ISBN 9781780910468.


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