Edward Thompson (footballer)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Edward Thompson

| fullname = Edward William Thompson

| image = EdwardThompsonfootballer.jpg

| birth_date = July 1894

| birth_place = Prudhoe, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|6 November 1918|July 1894}}

| death_place = Bermeries, France

| position = Left back

| years1 = {{0|0000}}–1914

| clubs1 = Spen Black and White

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1914–1915

| clubs2 = Fulham

| caps2 = 1

| goals2 = 0

}}

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.{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=286}}

Personal life

Thompson worked as a putter and stoneman at Emma Colliery, Ryton.{{Cite web |title=Edward William Thompson |url=http://www.rytonwarmemorials.org.uk/war_memorials/386/edward-william-thompson.php |access-date=19 January 2016 |website=Ryton And District War Memorials Project}} He enlisted as a private in the Scots Guards in February 1917, during the First World War. Two months later, his brother Charlton was killed in France while serving with the Durham Light Infantry.{{CWGC|id=306680|accessdate=19 January 2016|name=Charlton Thompson}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Fulham Players and the First World War |url=https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-centres/centre-for-historical-research/football-and-war-network/football-and-war-blog/2020/fulham-players-and-the-first-world-war/ |access-date=10 February 2020 |website=University of Wolverhampton}} 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.{{CWGC|id=582356|accessdate=19 January 2016|name=Edward Thompson}} He was buried in Bermeries Communal Cemetery.{{Cite web |title=Edward Thompson |url=https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/edward-thompson-fulham/ |website=Football and the First World War |accessdate=2 March 2020}}

Career statistics

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Fulham \|1914–15 \|Second Division \|1 \|0 \|0 \|0 \|1 \|0
colspan="3" \|Career total !1 !0 !0 !0 !1 !0

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