Ernie Davies
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ernest Davies | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 31 January 1916||
Place of birth | Heswall, England[1] | ||
Date of death | 17 August 1942[2] | (aged 26)||
Place of death | North Africa | ||
Position(s) | Wing half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1935 | Heswall | ||
1936–1940 | Tranmere Rovers | 48 | (1) |
1939–1940 | York City | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ernest Davies (31 January 1916 – 17 August 1942) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers.[1]
Personal life
Davies served as a corporal in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) during the Second World War and was killed during the North African campaign on 17 August 1942.[2][3] His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.[2]
Career statistics
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Tranmere Rovers | 1936–37 | Third Division North[1] | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
1937–38 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
1938–39 | Second Division[1] | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |
1939–40 | Third Division North[1] | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
Career total | 50 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 2 |
References
- ^ a b c d e f Ernie Davies at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "Casualty Details: Ernest Davies". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Rippon, Anton (2011). Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War. Cheltenham: The History Press. p. 119. ISBN 978 0 7524 7188 4.
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 1942 deaths
- People from Heswall
- Footballers from Merseyside
- Association football wing halves
- English footballers
- English Football League players
- Heswall F.C. players
- Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
- York City F.C. players
- Tranmere Rovers F.C. wartime guest players
- British Army personnel of World War II
- King's Own Royal Regiment soldiers
- British military personnel killed in World War II
- English football midfielder, 1910s birth stubs