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Harold Meadowcroft

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Date of birth
  
1889

Place of death
  
Somme, France

Died
  
1916, Somme, France

Place of birth
  
Workington, England

Years
  
Team

Playing positions
  
Wing half, Forward

Full name
  
Harold Chadwick Meadowcroft

Date of death
  
1 July 1916 (aged 26–27)

Harold Chadwick Meadowcroft (1889 – 1 July 1916) was an English professional football right half and outside right who played in the Football League for Glossop and Bury.

Personal life

Meadowcroft served as a corporal in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War and was killed in 1916 on the first day of the Somme. He was buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz.

References

Harold Meadowcroft Wikipedia