Full name Walter Kimberley Years Team | Date of birth 28 September 1884 Place of death Aston, England | |
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Date of death 22 April 1917(1917-04-22) (aged 32) Died 22 April 1917, Aston, Birmingham, United Kingdom | ||
Walter Kimberley (28 September 1884 – 22 April 1917) was an English professional football left back and right half who played in the Football League for Aston Villa.
Personal life
While playing for Coventry City, Kimberley worked at the Coventry Ordnance Works. An army reservist, Kimberley rejoined the Coldstream Guards as a lance corporal in August 1914, during the opening months of the First World War. The following month, he was captured by the Germans during the First Battle of the Marne and spent two years as a prisoner of war, before being repatriated to Britain in August 1916 with pulmonary tuberculosis. Kimberley was immediately discharged from the army and fell into severe ill heath, permanently losing his voice and dying at home in Aston on 22 April 1917. He was buried in Witton Cemetery, Birmingham.