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Albert Read |
Tufnell Park FC
1
appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 2:
A 0
100% successful
1921
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Albert Read
This
Read is based on the more likely Ealing-born player than the one readily
accepted. |
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Birth |
30 March 1893 in Ealing, Brentford, Middlesex
[registered in
Brentford, June 1893]. |
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According to the 1901
census, Albert is the third of four children to Frederick and Rosa (née
Hancock), living at 3 Broomfield Place in Ealing. His father is a florist. |
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According to the 1911
census, Albert remains the third of four children, and is a motor mechanic
living at 47 Westfield Road in West Ealing with his parents and widowed
grandmother, Martha Hancock. His father now a gardener and a florist.
According to this army records, at the time of his enlistment, on 10
September 1914, Read was living at 24 Denmark Street in West Ealing,and
was demobolized on 4 March 1919. |
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According to the
1921 census, Albert, an engineer (for Submersible motors), still lives at
24 Denmark Road, on his own. |
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Marriage |
to Norah
Charlotte Newman
[registered in Edmonton, June 1922]. One son, Eric Francis Greville (b.1933) |
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According to the 1939 register, Albert is an Engineer's draughtsman,
living at 9 Bean Road in Bexley. He is married, but Norah C, is at the
home of her parents, William E. and Emma E. at 7 Westfield Road in
Bournemouth. |
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Death |
26 October 1959
at New Cross General Hospital, aged 66 years 210 days
[registered in Deptford, December 1959]. Left £6,066 4s.
in his will. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], Mike Davage & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Represented Middlesex FA. Played
with Hanwell FC and Uxbridge FC in 1912. He then served as a signalman and
a gunner with the Royal Field Artillery, and briefly served as a pilot for
the Royal Air Force at the end of 1918. After the war, Read was playing
with Tufnell Park FC. After which he joined Queen's Park Rangers FC just
days after he played for England in May 1921, and then Reading FC in July 1922. He missed the
majority of the season after receiving a serious knee injury in only his
third appearance. He was released at the end of that season. Sittingbourne
FC signed Read in August 1923, and then Maidstone FC the following season. |
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Club honours |
FA
Amateur Cup runners-up 1919-20; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 12st.
0lbs [1922]. |
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Source |
Historians Mike
Davage and Jim Creasy. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of seven who became the 414th players
(416) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-half |
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Only match |
No. 126, 21 May 1921,
Belgium 0 England 2,
an end-of-season tour match at Stade du Daring Club de Bruxelles,
Sint-Jans Molenbeek,
Bruxelles, aged 28 years 52 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur (two
appearances) |
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Distinctions |
Died fifteen days after Louis Page |
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Beyond England |
No additional information, and the
information it does contain is for an Albert Aaron Read. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.203/204.
This Albert Read is a
motor mechanic. |
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