Date of birth 15 February 1886 Date of death 1942 (aged 55–56) Team Apps | Place of birth Leith, Scotland Years Team Died 1942 | |
Full name John James Blacklaw Borthwick | ||
John James Blacklaw "Jack" Borthwick (15 February 1886 – 1942) was a Scottish professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Everton. He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.
Personal life
Borthwick served as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War and was wounded in the head at Delville Wood in 1916. He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye".
References
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