Willie Wiseman

Willie Wiseman
Personal information
Full name William S Wiseman[1]
Date of birth 18 October 1896
Place of birth Turriff, Scotland
Date of death 1979 (aged 82–83)[2]
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Playing position Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1922 Aberdeen University
1922–1930 Queen's Park 264 (0)
National team
1926–1930 Scotland 2 (0)
1926–1930 Scotland Amateurs 6 (0)
1927 Scottish League XI 1
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

William S. Wiseman (18 October 1896 – 1979) was a Scottish amateur football left back who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and later served on the club's committee.[1][3][2][4] He was capped by Scotland at international level.[5][6]

Personal life

Wiseman was educated at Fordyce Academy, Portsoy and Aberdeen University and left the latter institution in 1916 to fight in the First World War with the Gordon Highlanders.[2][7] During his time on the Western Front, he was gassed, wounded and posted missing for a week.[7] After the war, he went to India to assist with the restructuring of the British Indian Army.[2] Wiseman's brother Fred won the Military Cross during the course of the war.[2] After leaving the army, Wiseman completed his studies at Glasgow Technical College and later worked as an Assistant Roads Surveyor for Dunbartonshire Council.[2] He took up a Deputy County Surveyor position in Banffshire in 1930.[2][7] He married in 1930 and had one son.[2] Wiseman served as a major in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, recruiting and training personnel in Scotland and then working on infrastructure projects.[2]

Honours

Queen's Park

References

  1. 1 2 "QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". www.qpfc.com. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "The Queen's Park Men Who Served And Survived As At October 2016" (PDF). pp. 19–21. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. ↑ (Smith 2013, p. 288)
  4. ↑ Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  5. ↑ "Scottish Football Association". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "FORGOTTEN GLORIES – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Queen's Park And The Great War: 1914 To 1918" (PDF). p. 17. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Sources
  • Smith, Paul (2013). Scotland Who's Who. Pitch Publishing. ISBN 9781909178847.


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