Fred Bartholomew

Fred Bartholomew
Personal information
Full name Frederick Charles Bartholomew[1]
Date of birth 3 January 1885
Place of birth Reading, England
Date of death 1979 (aged 9394)[1]
Playing position Utility player
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Reading Biscuits
1920 Reading 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Frederick Charles "Fred" Bartholomew (3 January 1885 – 1979) was an English professional football utility player who played in the Football League for Reading.[1] He served the club as a player, coach and groundsman for 53 years.[2]

Personal life

Bartholomew served as a colour sergeant with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[3] After retiring from football in 1923, he spent three years on the coaching staff at Reading and then became groundsman at Elm Park until his retirement in 1957.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 19. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 978-0857330772.
  3. "Frederick Bartholomew | Service Record | Football and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 2016-03-10.


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