Matthew Armstrong (English footballer)

Matthew Armstrong
Personal information
Full name Matthew Armstrong[1]
Date of birth 1918/1919
Place of birth High Spen,[1] County Durham, England
Date of death (1941-07-12)12 July 1941 (aged 22)
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Playing position Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1936–1939 Darlington 38 (2)
1939–19?? Aston Villa 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Matthew Armstrong (1918 or 1919 – 12 July 1941) was an English footballer who made 38 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Darlington in the 1930s.[1] He joined Aston Villa in 1939 – a preview in the Daily Express highlighted him as one of "two young defenders who look as if they have that certain Soccer something"[3] – but he never played for Villa's first team before the league was abandoned for the duration of the Second World War.[1][4]

Armstrong died on active service on 12 July 1941, aged 22, while serving in the Middle East as a private with 149 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. ↑ "Sykes Transferred". Birmingham Mail. 27 June 1939. Retrieved 8 August 2017. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Halsey, Stanley (17 August 1939). "Villa, Fulham put faith in young players". Daily Express. p. 14.
  4. ↑ "Armstrong, Matthew". Aston Villa Player Database. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Casualty details: Armstrong, Matthew". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 9 May 2014.


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