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James Galloway (footballer)

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Full name
  
James Blyth Galloway

Place of death
  
Kasauli, India

Team
  
Apps

Place of birth
  
Buckhaven, Scotland

Years
  
Team

Died
  
Kasauli

Date of death
  
17 November 1918 (aged 25)

James Blyth Galloway was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish Football League for Third Lanark.

Personal life

Galloway worked as an architect. A territorial, he was called up for service when the First World War broke out in August 1914 and joined the Royal Field Artillery. After a long period on the Western Front, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 16 September 1917. Galloway was posted to India late in the war and died of pneumonia in Kasauli on 17 November 1918, just six days after the end of the war. He was buried in Kasauli Cemetery.

References

James Galloway (footballer) Wikipedia


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