Wilfred Bartrop

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  1. dearnevalleyviper

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    #1 dearnevalleyviper, Nov 7, 2022
    Today we remember a Barnsley Football Club legend - the great Wilfred Bartrop who was killed in action on this day in 1918LWF 666B0D58-6D2C-44DA-A289-7B454688B8D8.jpeg
     
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    #2 Archey, Nov 7, 2022
    I still find it heartbreaking that Wilf was killed so close to the end of the war.
     
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    #3 Redblueunwhite, Nov 7, 2022
    Yeah so tragic, what a wonderful way to remember him,lovely wreath.
     
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    #4 Stephen Dawson, Nov 7, 2022
    Didn't he give up a safe job (miners weren't conscripted) to sign up too?
     
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    #5 Brush, Nov 7, 2022
    RIP.
     
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    #6 John Peachy, Nov 7, 2022
    RIP.
     
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    #7 Gravy Chips, Nov 7, 2022
    Forever one of our own.
     
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    #8 Didcot Red, Nov 7, 2022
    Do you know which cemetery this is?
     
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    #9 Stephen Dawson, Nov 7, 2022
    R.I.P Isn't it weird that if he'd lived people wouldn't have known who he was. He'd have been 60 in 1944 and probably have died sometime in the sixties in his eighties. Long before the internet.

    You could replace his name with thousands of others. Is that where the "unknown soldier" comes from? Such a sad waste of life. Makes me think of my own mortality. Sliding doors moments throughout your life that don't have any significance at the time. They could make a lifetime of difference.

    If Wilf hadn't volunteered he'd have lived a normal life. I bet there was a massive generation gap after the Great War with al the young men killed who would have started families.
     
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    #10 sadbrewer, Nov 7, 2022
    He wasn't a miner, in the 1911 census he gives his occupation as Professional footballer...his brothers/in laws were farm labourers.
     
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    #11 Stephen Dawson, Nov 7, 2022
    According to the club tribute he worked down the pit at Worksop.
     
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    #12 Wuz1964, Nov 7, 2022
    Deffo was a collier
     
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    #13 sadbrewer, Nov 7, 2022
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    You just beat me to it Stephen, he is described as a Pro footballer in 1911, but a 1917 court case for pitch 'n' toss gambling does say miner...without knowing for certain it's possible he went to the pit after the closure of the league in 1915.....although he had left the Reds and signed for Liverpool in May 1914.
     
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    #16 sadbrewer, Nov 7, 2022
    Interesting article that also describes what happened to the cup winning side.

    Snap 2022-11-07 at 16.21.51.png
     
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    #17 Didcot Red, Nov 7, 2022
    thank you.
     
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    #18 Redhelen, Nov 7, 2022
    I'm.not sure mining was a " safe job" !
     
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    #19 Redblueunwhite, Nov 7, 2022
    Definitely not.
     
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    #20 arabian_ian, Nov 7, 2022
    Very sad.
    BTW what does LWF mean?
     
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