Joseph Dines

Joseph Dines
Personal information
Date of birth	12 April 1886
Place of birth	King's Lynn, England
Date of death	27 September 1918 (aged 32)
Place of death	Pas-de-Calais, France
Position(s)	Centre half
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Lynn All Saints
	Lynn United
1904–1910	Lynn Town
	→ Norwich City (guest)
	→ Woolwich Arsenal (guest)
	→ Queens Park Rangers (guest)
1910–1912	Ilford
1912	Liverpool
	Ilford
	Walthamstow Avenue
	Millwall
	Lynn Town
International career
	England amateur
1912	Great Britain
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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]

References

^ "Joseph Dines". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
^ "Joseph Dines". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ 1901 census – 4 Whitefriars Terrace, South Lynn, Norfolk
^ "Joe Dines". Blue & Gold Supporters Trust. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
^ "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.