Full name Edwin Stanley Garvey Playing position | Date of birth 14 September 1892 Position Forward | |
Date of death 15 October 1915(1915-10-15) (aged 23) Died 15 October 1915, Jülich, Germany | ||
Edwin Stanley "Eddie" Garvie (14 September 1892 – 15 October 1915) was a Scottish amateur football half back and forward who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park. He captained the club.
Personal life
Garvie worked as a foreign merchants' clerk. After the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Garvie enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Serving with the rank of lance corporal, he was wounded during Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915, taken prisoner and died in a German prison hospital in Jülich on 15 October 1915. His grave was later moved to the Südfriedhof in Cologne. Garvie's younger brother, Ernest, served as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry during the war and won the Military Cross. He was killed by a fellow officer during the Battle of the Lys in 1918.