Tom Haydock
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Haydock<ref name="[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1890 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 2 September 1918 (aged 28)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Bailleulval, France | ||
| Playing position | Centre half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1914–1915 | Queen's Park | 17 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Thomas "Tom" Haydock (1890 – 2 September 1918) was a Scottish amateur football centre half who played in the Scottish Football League for Queen's Park.[3]
Personal life
Haydock was a graduate of Glasgow University and was a salesman for the Clydevale Oil & Colour Company, Bridgeton.[4] In September 1914, one month after the outbreak of the First World War, Haydock enlisted in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.[5] In January 1915, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).[5] Haydock saw action at Gallipoli and Palestine before being seriously wounded during an attack on Umbrella Hill during the Third Battle of Gaza on 1 November 1917.[4] He did not return to his battalion until August 1918, after it had been deployed on the Western Front.[4] Haydock was wounded during an attack on the Hindenburg Line, west of Quéant on 2 September 1918 and died the same day at a Casualty Clearing Station in Bailleulval.[4] He was buried in Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval.[2]
References
- ↑ "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1918-1919" (PDF). Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- 1 2 Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ↑ "QPFC.com - A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". www.qpfc.com. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- 1 2 3 4 "Queen's Park Counts the Cost - Gallipoli and The Eastern Mediterranean" (PDF). pp. 5–7. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- 1 2 "Thomas Haydock | Service Record | Football and the First World War". Retrieved 2016-09-19.