Charlie_Clark_(English_footballer)

Charlie Clark (English footballer)

Charlie Clark (English footballer)

English footballer


Charles Clark (27 May 1917 – 1 March 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers and Luton Town.[1]

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Personal life

Clark served as a lance sergeant in the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) during the Second World War and died of wounds in Tunisia on 1 March 1943 while serving with the 2/4th Battalion of his regiment.[2][4] He is buried at Beja War Cemetery.[2]

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References

  1. Charlie Clark at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. "Casualty Details: Charles Clark". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. "Queen's Park Rangers. Relying on old team". Sunday Dispatch Football Guide. London. 23 August 1936. p. xii via Newspapers.com.
  4. Rippon, Anton (2011). Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War. Cheltenham: The History Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7524-7188-4.

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