Harry Robotham
{{Short description|English footballer (1879–1916)}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Harry Robotham
| fullname = Horace Osborne Robotham
| image = Horace Robotham.jpg
| image_size = 150
| caption = Robotham while with Fulham in 1905
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|06|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Heath Town, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|09|12|1879|06|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Flers-Courcelette, France
| position = Right half
| years1 =
| clubs1 = Wolverhampton Post Office
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| goals1 =
| years2 =
| clubs2 = Redshaw Albion
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| years3 = 1899
| clubs3 = Ossett
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| years4 = 1899–1901
| clubs4 = Hunslet
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| years5 = 1901–1902
| clubs5 = Wolverhampton Wanderers
| caps5 = 7
| goals5 = 1
| years6 = 1903–1905
| clubs6 = Fulham
| caps6 = 34
| goals6 = 0
| years7 = 1905–1906
| clubs7 = Brentford
| caps7 = 18
| goals7 = 0
| years8 = 1906–1907
| clubs8 = Glossop
| caps8 = 23
| goals8 = 4
| years9 = 1907–1908
| clubs9 = New Brompton
| caps9 = 30
| goals9 = 0
| years10 = 1908–1909
| clubs10 = Wellington Town
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| goals10 =
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Horace Osborne Robotham (12 June 1879 – 12 September 1916) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Glossop and Wolverhampton Wanderers as a right half.{{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=250}} He also played in the Southern League for Fulham, New Brompton and Brentford.{{Cite book |title=100 Years Of Brentford |publisher=Brentford FC |year=1989 |isbn=0951526200 |editor-last=White |editor-first=Eric |page=358}}
Personal life
On 26 November 1915, in Wolverhampton during the First World War,{{Cite web |title=Fulham Players and the First World War |url=https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-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 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808212523/https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/centre-for-historical-research/football-and-war-network/football-and-war-blog/2020/fulham-players-and-the-first-world-war/ |url-status=dead }} Robotham enlisted in the 2nd Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.{{Cite web |title=Harry Robotham |url=http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/harry-robotham-footballer/ |access-date=1 August 2015 |website=Football and the First World War}} He served his initial time on the Western Front between Hazebrouck and Bailleul in 1916 and later took part in the Battle of the Somme. Robotham was killed on 12 September 1916 during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. His body was never recovered and his name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
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Category:footballers from Wolverhampton
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football wing halves
Category:Hunslet F.C. (association football) players
Category:Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Category:Brentford F.C. players
Category:Glossop North End A.F.C. players
Category:Gillingham F.C. players
Category:Military personnel from Wolverhampton
Category:Telford United F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:Southern Football League players
Category:Middlesex Regiment soldiers
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme
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