Charlie Clark (English footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Charles Clark | ||
Date of birth | 27 May 1917[1] | ||
Place of birth | Fleet, England[1] | ||
Date of death | (aged 25)[2] | ||
Place of death | French Tunisia | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1935–1938 | Queens Park Rangers | 6 | (0) |
1938–1939 | Luton Town | 15 | (6) |
Total | 21 | (6) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Charles Clark (27 May 1917 – 1 March 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers and Luton Town.[1]
Personal life
Clark served as a lance sergeant in the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) during the Second World War and died of wounds in Tunisia on 1 March 1943 while serving with the 2/4th Battalion of his regiment.[2][3] He is buried at Beja War Cemetery.[2]
Career statistics
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Queens Park Rangers | 1935–36 | Third Division South[1] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1936–37 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
1937–38 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
QPR career total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
Luton Town | 1938–39 | Second Division[1] | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
Career total | 21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 |
References
- ^ a b c d e Charlie Clark at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "Casualty Details: Charles Clark". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Rippon, Anton (2011). Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War. Cheltenham: The History Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7524-7188-4.
Categories:
- 1917 births
- Military personnel from Hampshire
- 1943 deaths
- People from Fleet, Hampshire
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football wingers
- Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
- Luton Town F.C. players
- Royal Hampshire Regiment soldiers
- British Army personnel killed in World War II
- Footballers from Hampshire
- English football midfielder, 1910s birth stubs