Date of birth 1880 Playing position Position Goalkeeper | Place of death Somme, France Died Somme, France | |
Full name Thomas Sowerby Rowlandson Place of birth Newton Morrell, England Date of death 15 September 1916 (aged 36) | ||
Thomas Sowerby "Tom" Rowlandson MC (1880–15 September 1916) was an English amateur football goalkeeper who played in the Football League for Sunderland and Newcastle United. He represented the England amateur national team.
Personal life
Rowlandson attended Charterhouse School and was a Cambridge University blue. After the breakout of the First World War in August 1914, he joined the British Army and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment. By April 1915 he was in Belgium, fighting in the Second Battle of Ypres. By 1 January 1916, he had been promoted to captain, mentioned in dispatches and won the Military Cross. Rowlandson was killed by a German grenade on 15 September 1916, during the Battle of Flers–Courcelette. He is buried at Bécourt Military Cemetery in Bécordel-Bécourt.