This Scottish ahead made two Reds appearances after he joined from Ayr, and is essentially the most not too long ago added to the record of gamers misplaced in battle. Mark Wylie: “What confused us was that he was in a London battalion however we then found it was the London Scottish. It seems he turned a tailor in London and so we adopted the path and Ayr confirmed he was our participant.” Kerr died of wounds in a hospital close to Boulogne, France.
Non-public 43594 Harry Levis | twenty second (Service) Battalion (seventh Metropolis) Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1913-14
Mark Wylie: “We haven’t discovered any match stories stating he performed for us, however his inclusion right here is justified as a result of he was a reserve participant and was registered with the membership. The title Harry Levis seems solely 3 times within the 1911 census, two of them from the North West with a kind of in Salford. He went lacking in motion with the Manchester Regiment and is commemorated at numerous church buildings within the Eccles/Salford space. We’re fairly sure he’s our participant and was a struggle casualty.”
Non-public F/1723 Oscar H.S. Linkson | seventeenth (Service) Battalion (1st Soccer) Middlesex Regiment | Manchester United 1908-13
The total-back spent 5 years on the membership, making 59 appearances, together with seven within the title-winning season of 1910/11. Hailing from Barnet, he loved a few good seasons with the Reds however after being hampered by accidents he moved to Eire to play for Shelbourne. He joined the footballers’ battalion and was killed on the Somme. His title can be on the Thiepval Memorial.
Non-public 24744 Patrick McGuire | seventeenth (Service) Battalion (2nd Metropolis) Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1910-11
He performed for each Manchester golf equipment: whereas solely representing the reserves for United, he turned out for Metropolis’s first staff. Though he by no means actually made it at United, McGuire was a widely known participant across the Manchester space – representing various golf equipment together with Hurst, now Ashton United. He was comparatively early to enroll, becoming a member of one of many early buddies battalions of the Manchester Regiment. One other to die on the Somme, he’s commemorated in Thiepval and likewise at St Chad’s Church in Cheetham Hill.
Lieutenant Charles N. Newcombe | seventh (Service) Battalion King’s Personal Yorkshire Gentle Infantry | Manchester United 1913-14
The one officer amongst our gamers killed in battle. An newbie with the reserves, he was educated at a personal college in Chesterfield. Mark Wylie advised us: “He had been determined to hitch the military on the outbreak of struggle and utilized for commissions to get in as an officer, finally getting one with the King’s Personal Yorkshire Gentle Infantry. He was shot by a sniper whereas serving close to Armentieres, France, in 1915.”
Non-public 28819 Harry Reynolds | twentieth Battalion Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1907-09
A part of the twentieth Manchesters, Reynolds misplaced his life on the primary day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916). Born in Blackley, Manchester, in 1884, he turned a famous athlete and signed for United on 10 August 1907 as an newbie participant. Data present he performed solely 3 times for United’s reserve staff, doing in order an inside-forward in Lancashire Mixture matches in opposition to Oldham Athletic, Bolton Wanderers and Burnley in April 1909. He volunteered to serve within the military in 1915 and is buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery in northern France.
Non-public 6041 James Semple | tenth (Service) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers | Manchester United 1908-09
One other Scot, from Perth, he was a baker earlier than he turned a footballer and performed for various non-league golf equipment in Scotland earlier than becoming a member of United in 1908. He by no means made the primary staff, nevertheless, and returned north of the border. Mark Wylie: “By 1911, he was again down in England, residing in Liverpool as a baker, which explains why he joined the Lancashire Fusiliers slightly than the Black Watch in Scotland. He was in a battalion often known as the Bury Friends, and was one other misplaced on the Somme.”
