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Tom Farrage
Personal information
Full name Thomas Oysten Farrage
Date of birth 3 November 1917[1]
Place of birth Chopwell, County Durham, England
Date of death 23 September 1944(1944-09-23) (aged 26)
Place of death Arnhem, Netherlands
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Walker Celtic
1937–1944 Birmingham[a] 10 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Oysten Farrage (3 November 1917 – 23 September 1944) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham.[2] He was killed in action during the Second World War.

Life and career

Farrage was born in Chopwell, near Rowlands Gill, which was then in County Durham,[4] to Robert and Isabella Farrage.[5] He began his football career with Walker Celtic in the North Eastern League, and joined First Division club Birmingham in November 1937. Described as a "promising young player with an eye for goal",[4] Farrage made his debut on 7 September 1938 in a 2–1 win at home to Leicester City, and kept his place for five of the next six games, in which he scored twice. He played once more that season,[3] and in the opening three games of the 1939–40 season which was abandoned because of the Second World War.[6]

He made guest appearances for Leeds United, Luton Town and Middlesbrough in the wartime leagues, though he did not play again for Birmingham.[7]

Farrage was a member of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) (his last station was at Dover) until May 1943, when he commenced training with the Parachute Regiment.[8] He was killed in action on 23 September 1944 in Arnhem, serving as a private in the 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment during Operation Market Garden, and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Figures include three games and one goal from the abandoned 1939–40 season.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  3. ^ a b Matthews, p. 181.
  4. ^ a b Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  5. ^ a b "Casualty details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  6. ^ Matthews, p. 236.
  7. ^ Rollin, Jack (2005). Soccer at War: 1939–45. London: Headline. pp. 275–76, 349, 358, 368. ISBN 978-0-7553-1431-7.
  8. ^ Hall, Colin (2010). Dropped In It. Kindle ebooks at Amazon.co.uk. ASIN B0047O2F0S.
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