Tommy Barber

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(1925-09-18) (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

* 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

Aston Villa

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 17. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tom Barber Aston Villa". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  3. 1 2 "Great games: Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 0 - April 19, 1913". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  4. 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.
  5. Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 259.
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