Date of birth 1879 Place of death Pas-de-Calais, France | Place of birth Coalville, England Years Team | |
Full name John Davenport Sheffield Date of death 13 March 1915 (aged 35–36) Died 1915, Pas-de-Calais, France | ||
John Davenport "Jack" Sheffield (1879 – 13 March 1915) was an English amateur football outside right who played in the Football League for Burton United and Leicester Fosse.
Personal life
Sheffield apprenticed as an architect and surveyor and as of 1911 was assisting his family in the running of the Railway Hotel, Coalville. He volunteered to serve in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment during the Second Boer War and later rejoined the regiment soon after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Sheffield was killed on the final day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 13 March 1915 and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
References
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