Alex McCurdie
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alexander McCurdie[1] | ||
Date of birth | 7 January 1895 | ||
Place of birth | Trabboch, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 24 April 1917[2] | (aged 22)||
Place of death | Beaucamp, France | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1913 | Glasgow University | ||
1913–1915 | Kilmarnock | 11 | (2) |
→ Stevenston United (loan) | |||
1915 | → Reading (guest) | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alexander McCurdie (7 January 1895 – 24 April 1917) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Kilmarnock.[1][3]
Personal life
[edit]McCurdie attended Glasgow University.[4] In May 1915, 9 months after Britain's entry into the First World War, McCurdie enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.[4] He arrived on the Western Front in June 1916 and saw action at the Battle of the Ancre five months later.[4] By April 1917, he had been promoted to acting lance-sergeant and had been recommended for the DCM.[4] McCurdie was killed while on patrol in Beaucamps, Nord on 24 April 1917 and he was buried in Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich.[4]
Career statistics
[edit]Club | Season | League | National Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Kilmarnock | 1913–14[3] | Scottish First Division | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
1914–15[3] | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
Career total | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1916–1917" (PDF). p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ a b c "Kilmarnock Player Alex McCurdie Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "Royals Remembered". Reading FC | Home of the Royals!. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
Categories:
- Scottish men's footballers
- 1917 deaths
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- 1895 births
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders soldiers
- Scottish Football League players
- Kilmarnock F.C. players
- Footballers from East Ayrshire
- Men's association football forwards
- Alumni of the University of Glasgow
- Reading F.C. wartime guest players
- Glasgow University F.C. players
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1890s birth stubs