Larrett Roebuck
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Use British English Template:Infobox football biography Larrett Roebuck (27 January 1889 – 18 October 1914) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Huddersfield Town as a left back.[1] He was the first Football League player to be killed in the First World War.[2]
Personal life
As a boy, Roebuck worked as a trammer at Silverwood Colliery and after being sentenced to one month's imprisonment for stealing a watch in 1904, he enlisted in the territorial section of the York and Lancaster Regiment.[2][3] Over the next seven years, he was stationed in India and Ireland and was promoted to lance corporal, but was demoted back to private in 1910 for "misconduct".[2] He married in 1908 and had four children.[2][3] Roebuck was discharged into the reserves in 1912 and likely returned to work as a miner prior to becoming a professional footballer in 1913.[2] After Britain's entry into the First World War in August 1914, he was mobilised by the York and Lancaster Regiment and arrived on the Western Front in September 1914.[3] On 18 October 1914, Roebuck was recorded as "presumed dead" after an attack near Beaucamps-Ligny during the Race to the Sea.[2] His death was confirmed by two comrades in January 1915.[2] Roebuck is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing.[4]
Career statistics
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Huddersfield Town | 1913–14[5] | Second Division | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Career total | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
See also
References
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- 1889 births
- 1914 deaths
- Footballers from South Yorkshire
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- English Football League players
- Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Missing in action of World War I
- British people convicted of theft
- York and Lancaster Regiment soldiers
- 1910s missing person cases
- Missing person cases in France