Tommy Barber
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Barber[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1886[1] | ||
| Place of birth | West Stanley, England | ||
| Date of death | 18 September 1925 (aged 39)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Nuneaton, England[2] | ||
| Playing position | Half back, inside left | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Shankhouse | |||
| West Stanley | |||
| Hamsterley | |||
| 1908–1912 | Bolton Wanderers | 102 | (14) |
| 1912–1914 | Aston Villa | 57 | (9) |
| → Belfast Celtic (guest) | |||
| → Celtic (guest) | |||
| → Partick Thistle (guest) | |||
| → Linfield (guest) | |||
| → Distillery (guest) | |||
| Stalybridge Celtic | |||
| Crystal Palace | |||
| 1920 | Merthyr Town | 2 | (0) |
| Ton Pentre | |||
| Pontypridd | |||
| 1921 | Walsall | 5 | (2) |
| Darlaston | |||
| Hinckley United | |||
| Barwell United | |||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals) | |||
Thomas "Tommy" Barber (22 July 1886 – 18 September 1925) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Merthyr Town and Walsall.[1] He scored the winning goal for Aston Villa in the 1913 FA Cup Final against Sunderland.[3]
Personal life
Barber served as a private in the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War.[2] He saw action at Delville Wood and Waterlot Farm in the summer of 1916,[2] but suffered gunshot wounds to the legs at Guillemont and was evacuated to Britain.[4] After recovering in Aberdeen, he spent another period in hospital suffering from pleurisy.[5] Barber was later transferred to the Labour Corps and also worked in a munitions factory in Glasgow.[2] He died of tuberculosis in 1925.[2]
Honours
References
- 1 2 3 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 17. ISBN 190589161X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tom Barber Aston Villa". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- 1 2 "Great games: Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 0 - April 19, 1913". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 259.