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Bertie Banks

Millwall Athletic FC

 1 appearance, 0 goals

P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 3: A 0
100% successful
1901

captain: none
minutes played: 90

Timeline
  Corporal Herbert Ernest Banks
Birth Friday, 19 June 1874 at 30 Upper Canterbury Street in Coventry, Warwickshire.
Birthdate confirmed by the 1939 register
  registered in Coventry April-June 1874
Baptism 19 July 1874 at St. Peter's Church, Coventry; His father's occupation is stated as carpenter, and they were living in Canterbury Street.
 

According to the 1881 census, Herbert E. is the sixth of eight children to Thomas and Mary Ann (née Tooth). His father is a joiner, now living at 55 Alum Rock Road in Aston.
(His mother died shortly after this census was taken)
 

According to the 1891 census, the Banks family have moved on to 4 Victoria Place in Crompton Road, Nechells, Birmingham. His father is now worker at the car factory.
However, 18 year old Herbert is a subordinate infantryman at Fort George barracks near Ardersier, Inverness.
 

According to the 1901 census, Herbert Banks' occupation is now a Footballer, boarding with the Leonard's at 31 Seysell Street in Poplar, London.
  "Herbert Banks met with a serious accident this week. While attempting to catch a tramcar in [Birmingham], he was knocked down by a cab, the wheel passing over him. On being conveyed to the General Hospital, he was found to have sustained an injury to the thigh and scalp wounds of so serious a character as to warrant his attention." - Morning leader, Wednesday, 22 January 1902
Marriage to Rose Emily Hawgood, on Saturday, 2 December 1905, at Aston Register Office, Warwickshire
  registered in Aston October-December 1905
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According to the 1911 census, Herbert E. is now married to Rose and living at 190 Merrivale Road in Bearwood in Smethwick, Staffordshire.
This is also the address where Banks joined the army, aged 40 years, on 24 August 1914 Corporal Banks is discharged to on leaving the army on 31 July 1919.
 

According to the 1921 census, Herbert Ernest, a capstan lathe works, is still married, and still living at 190 Merrivale Road.
  According to the 1939 register, Herbert E. and Rose E. remain married and are still living at 190 Merrivale Road. He is a warehouseman at the screw works.
Death Sunday, 27 April 1947, at his home, 190 Merrivale Road in Smethwick, Staffordshire, of congestive heart failure.
aged 72 years 312 days registered in Smethwick July-September 1947

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &

Playing Career

Club(s)		 Began his football playing with the juniors in Leamington. And carried on as player with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders, playing competitively in India. He was on Everton FC's books in 1897, before he went on loan to Scottish side, St. Mirren FC and remained in Scotland when Third Lanark FC signed him later that year, playing 28 Scottish league games, scoring three goals. He had become a Millwall Athletic FC player on 30 March 1899 for a £10 transfer fee, playing 26 Southern League matches, scoring eleven. Joined Aston Villa FC on 20 April 1901. Six months later, on 9 November, he signed for Bristol City FC, and was a recipient of a 5s. fine for kicking in a door after a cup match with neighbours, Bristol Rovers FC. He joined John Goodall's Watford FC in 1903, scoring 21 goals in nineteen Southern League appearances. Coventry City FC signed him in 1904, where he returned eighteen Birmingham & District League appearances with twelve goals. Banks spent his final season at Stafford Rangers FC, of the Birmingham League.

League honours
51 appearances, 20 goals		 Everton FC 1897 two appearances
debut: 3 April 1896 Preston North End FC 4 Everton FC 1.
Aston Villa FC 1901 five appearances
debut: 7 September 1901 Bury FC 0 Aston Villa FC 0.
Bristol City FC 1901-03 42 appearances seventeen goals
debut (division two): 30 November 1901 Preston North End FC 0 Bristol City FC 0.
last (division two): 25 April 1903 Burton United FC 0 Bristol City FC 3.
Club honours Glasgow Merchants' Charity Cup winner 1897-98 (first Englishman to do so)
Individual honours Represented Glasgow in a representative match in 1898.
Distinctions None
Height/Weight 5' 8", 12st. 2lbs [1901]. 5' 9", 15st 4lbs [1914]

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

England Career
Player number One of five who became the 257th players (260) to appear for England.
Position(s) Inside-left
Only match No. 71, 9 March 1901, England 3 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at The Dell, Milton Road, The Common, Southampton, aged 26 years 263 days.
Major tournaments British Championship 1900-01;
Team honours British Championship winners 1900-01;
Individual honours The South (one appearance, 2ᵍ, February 1901)
Distinctions None

Beyond England
Was a member of the Seaforth Highlanders until 1896 and then the Royal Garrison Artillery in the first World War, later transferring to the Worcestershire Regiment. At the time of his enlistment, Banks' was a Metal Turner. After leaving football, he worked for a Birmingham engineering firm. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.22/23./Ancestry.com


The Numbers
parties Appearances comp. apps minutes captain
1 1 1 90 0 none
The minutes here given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an approximation.
P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3 0 100 +1
His only match was played in the British Championship competition and at a home venue

Tournament Record

British Championship Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1900-01 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
BC All 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1

All Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3 0 100 +1

Match History

 Club: Millwall Athletic F.C. - one full appearance (90 min) F.A. International Select Committee - one full appearance (90 min)x

Age 26 trial  
one appearance  - The South vs. The North, 25 February 1901;

apps match match details comp res. rundown pos

1 71 9 March 1901 - England 3 Ireland 0
The Dell, Southampton		 BC HW   il
 

one of five who became the 257th player (260) to appear for England
the first Millwall Athletic FC player to represent England

     

 
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