Pat Gallacher

Pat Gallacher
Personal information
Full name	Patrick Joseph Gallacher
Date of birth	17 March 1881
Place of birth	Camlachie, Scotland
Date of death	8 April 1951 (aged 70)
Place of death	Tottenham, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Outside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1899–1901	Duntocher Hibernian
1901–1902	Rockvale
1904–1905	Tottenham Hotspur
1905–1907	Luton Town
1907–1908	Partick Thistle
	Workington
	Barrow
	Ton Pentre
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Joseph Gallacher (17 March 1881 – 8 April 1951) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Partick Thistle.^[5] He also played in the Southern League for Luton Town and in the Western League for Tottenham Hotspur.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Personal life

Gallacher served as a private in the 1st and 2nd Football Battalions during the First World War and by May 1917,^[9] he was the trainer of the 1st battalion's football team.^[10] He served the final six months of the war as an appointed lance corporal in the Rifle Brigade and the Artists Rifles.^[11]^[12] In later life, Gallacher worked as a groundsman and at Enfield Cable Works.^[4] At the time of his death in April 1951, Gallacher lived within sight of White Hart Lane on Trulock Road, Tottenham.^[4]

Ton Pentre

^ ^a ^b "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
^ 1939 England and Wales Register
^ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Goodwin, Bob (16 August 2017). The Spurs Alphabet. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-9540434-2-1.
^ "Players G – The Partick Thistle History Archive". partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "THE BULLDOGS FIRST WELSH LEAGUE TITLE – 1914/15 SEASON". Ton Pentre AFC l tonpentreafc.com. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
^ "Patrick Gallacher". 11v11.com. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^ "Gallacher Patrick Image 2 Barrow 1914". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^ "Match fit and ready to fight for their country". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
^ 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. 213. ISBN 978-0857330772.
^ Pat Gallacher on Lives of the First World War
^ "Patrick Gallacher | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

This biographical article related to Scottish football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.