Cyril Smith (footballer)
| 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 | |||
| Royal Welsh Fusiliers | |||
| 1912 | Aberdare | ||
| 1914–1916 | Croydon Common | 17 | (5) |
| 1919 | Crystal Palace | ||
| 1920–1921 | 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]
Personal life
Smith fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[4] He was gassed on the Somme in the summer of 1916 and evacuated to Liverpool.[5]
References
- ^ "Croydon Common Football Club Biographies" (PDF). Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 190589161X.
- ^ "Nuneaton Town 1919-1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
- ^ 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.
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