Edward Thompson (footballer)

Edward Thompson

Personal information
Full name	Edward William Thompson[1]
Date of birth	July 1894[2]
Place of birth	Prudhoe, England
Date of death	6 November 1918 (1918-11-07) (aged 24)[3]
Place of death	Bermeries, France[4]
Position(s)	Left back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–1914	Spen Black and White
1914–1915	Fulham	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edward William Thompson (July 1894 – 6 November 1918) was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance in the Football League for Fulham as a left back.^[1]

Thompson worked as a putter and stoneman at Emma Colliery, Ryton.^[5] He enlisted as a private in the Scots Guards in February 1917, during the First World War.^[5] Two months later, his brother Charlton was killed in France while serving with the Durham Light Infantry.^[6] Thompson was involved in the Battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal on 4 November 1918, and was killed in action while serving with the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards at Bermeries two days later,^[4] just five days before the armistice with Germany. He was one of the two last English footballers to die in the war, dying on the same day as George Lake.^[3] He was buried in Bermeries Communal Cemetery.^[2][3]

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