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War
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The Roll of Honour of Former Players of Everton Football Club who Lost Their
Lives in the Two World Wars
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Photo : Everton
Football Club Heritage Society website
A great deal of research has been carried out by a number of
members of the Everton Football Club Heritage Society into players on Everton
FC books who fell in both World Wars. This research has also been extended
to include the Everton clubs of Chile and New Zealand.
A booklet was produced to include a roll of honour for all three clubs, with
brief biographies of the players.
n 2011 a plaque in memory of men associated with the Everton clubs of England and Chile who lost their lives in both World Wars was erected near the Park End stand. This was the culmination of two years research by David France, John Rowlands, John Shearon, Billy Smith, and Paul Wharton of the EFC Heritage Society, who unearthed the names of seven footballers associated with both clubs. In fact, two plaques were erected, one at Everton and an identical copy in Chile, which were sponsored by the Everton Shareholders Association, in association with Dr David France and his wife, Elizabeth.
In front of these two plaques is a statue of Dixie Dean (William
Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980).
Dixie Dean is regarded as one of the greatest centre-forwards of all time,
and played the majority of his career at Everton .
13 names are commemorated in the Roll of Honour as having lost their lives in the First World War, and 4 in the Second World War.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated in the Everton Roll of Honour.
Serjeant Richard Cross Wynn. 20955. 12th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to Labour Corps (CSM 340210, 17th Coy). Son
of Samuel and Elizabeth Wynn; husband of Maud Mary Wynn, of 24, Pease St.,
Eastbourne, Darlington. Native of Walton, Liverpool. Died 9 August 1919. Aged
27.
Buried ETAPLES CEMETERY.
The following biography of Richard Cross Wynn is provided in the Everton FC Heritage Society WWI and WW2 Remembrance Booklet;-
"Born in 1892, and living in the shadow of Goodison Park,
by his late teens Richard Wynn was working in a local rubber works while playing
centre-forward for Sterling FC in Liverpool & District League 1910-11
season.
He signed amateur forms for Everton for the 1911-12 season and played as an
outside-left, and although he was retained for a further year, by June 1912
he was loaned to Chester, where he joined his brother Robert in the same team.
Officially released by Everton in April 1913, he was quickly rated as the
best half-back in the Lancashire Combination, and was snapped up by Middlesbrough
in April 1914, scoring on his debut against Spurs.
By the summer of 1915 he had volunteered for the 12th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment (Teesside Pioneers), while brother obert enlisted with the Grenadier
Guards.
Robert later secured a transfer to the 12th Yorks on 11 May 1915 to be with
his brother. After a year in training they landed in France in June 1916.
During his periods of leave Richard had time to make 22 guest appearances
for Brentford scoring eight goals. W
hile Robert was discharged home on 23 Feb 1919, Richard, now a sergeant, was
transferred to the 17th Company Labour
Corps and remained in France during post-war clear up work. Although he survived
the conflict and was due to return to Middlesbrough for the 1919-20 season
he died on 9 August 1919 aged twenty-seven from injuries suffered in an accident
while still serving in France. He was laid to rest in Etaples Military Cemetery."
The
Memorial Plaques Beside the Gates to the Park End Stand of Everton Football
Club
The Statue in Front is of Dixie Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980)
Photo : Kev
Wood
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