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Nov 8, 2020 · PNE footballers killed in the First World War, from left, Peter Lorimer, Fred Griffiths and William Walter Gerrish. Private Alfred Lorrimer, a Longridge youth, who was capable of running 100...
Mar 29, 2018 · A shell blast destroyed both Gerrish’s legs at Delville Wood on August 8, 1916. He died the same day, at the age of 31. Legend has it that Gerrish lay quietly smoking a cigarette until he was...
On the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Footballers' Battalion Middlesex Regiment. William Gerrish was killed on the Western Front on 8th August, 1916.
The First World War service record of former professional footballer William Gerrish who was killed in action in France on 8 August 1916.
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Nov 11, 2018 · The same operation that claimed the lives of Slocock and King also killed four footballers: Manchester United’s FA Cup and League winner Oscar Linkson, Reading forward Allen Foster, Aston Villa’s...
Nov 3, 2011 · This books sometimes reveals the coolness with which the footballers faced their imminent death stoically, such as the Aston Villa player William Gerrish whose legs had been shattered, lay quietly smoking a cigarette waiting for the stretcher, he later died of those wounds.
- Andrew Riddoch, John Kemp
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May 2, 2009 · Pte WILLIAM GERRISH joined the Footballers' Battalion and was killed in the attack at Guillemont in the battle of the Somme. Lt J. WATKINS, a local amateur of whom Villa had very high hopes. He joined up early in the war and took commissioned rank, but was, unfortunately killed in action in France.
