Fred Cheesmur

{{short description|English footballer}}

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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name= Fred Cheesmur

| fullname = Frederick Harold Cheesmur

| image = Fred cheesmur001.jpg

| image_size = 200

| caption = Cheesmur in 1965

| birth_date = 16 January 1908{{cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X|page=14}}

| death_date= {{death date and age|df=y|1987|8|13|1908|1|16}}

| death_place = Folkestone, England

| birth_place = Wandsworth, England

| position = Inside forward

| years1 = ?–1927 | years2 = 1927–1928 | years3 = 1928–1929 | years4 = 1929–1930 | years5 = 1930–1934 | years6 = 1934–1936 | years7 =1936–?

| clubs1 = Dartford | clubs2 = Arsenal | clubs3 = Charlton Athletic | clubs4 = Gillingham | clubs5 = Sheffield United | clubs6 = Southend United | clubs7 =Folkestone

| caps1 = | goals1 = | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | caps3 = 0 | goals3 = 0 | caps4 = 55 | goals4 = 19 | caps5 = 17 | goals5 = 2 | caps6 = 31 | goals6 = 8 | caps7 = | goals7 =

|manageryears1= | managerclubs1=| nationalcaps1= | nationalgoals1 =

| club-update = 15 August 2007

}}

Frederick Harold Cheesmur (born Wandsworth, 16 January 1908, died Folkestone, 13 August 1987) was an English professional footballer.

Cheesmur's clubs included Charlton Athletic, Gillingham and Sheffield United. While playing for Gillingham in a match against Merthyr Town on 26 April 1930, he scored six goals, a club record haul for a single match at a professional level which stands to this day.{{cite book | last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club |page=349}}

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