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Bert
Coleman |
Dulwich Hamlet
FC
1 appearance,
0 goals against
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 0:
A 0
50% successful
1921
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Ernest Herbert Coleman |
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Birth |
19 October 1889
in Hove, Sussex [registered in
Steyning, December 1889]. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Herbert is the youngest of two sons to George Henry and Flora, his elder
brother is Nelson. They live at 42 Shirley Street in Hove, with two
servants. His father is a master butcher. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Herbert has two more younger brothers, still at 42 Shirley Street, with
their parents and one servant. His father is still master butchering! |
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According to the 1911 census,
Herbert is now a clerk, living with his brothers and their parents, now
living at 14 Manchuria Road in Battersea, London.
He was still
living at 14 Manchuria Road when he was discharged from the army in 1919. |
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According to the
1921 census, Ernest Herbert, an accountant (for Morris & Co. meat
importers), is the second oldest of the five sons living at home with
their widowed mother, still at 14 Manchuria Road. |
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Marriage |
to Elsie M. Belsham
[registered in Hampstead, September 1923]. |
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According to the 1939 register, Ernest H., a commercial accountant for
Ford Importers, and Elise M. are married, and they are living at 1 Oakhill
Court, on Bromley Road in Beckenham, with his disabled brother, Francis. |
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Death |
15 June 1958, aged
68 years 239 days
[registered in Bromley, Kent, June 1958]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his career playing with Croydon Amateurs and joined Dulwich Hamlet
in 1912 and after serving as Rifleman in the London 9th Reserve Battalion,
he become club captain in 1921 for two years, and remained with them until
he retired in 1925. Also represented Surrey in 1913 and London, also in
1913 and 1920. |
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Club honours |
FA Amateur Cup winners 1919-20; |
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Individual honours |
FA Charity Shield
runners-up with Amateurs 1923; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5' 9½", 12st. 8lbs [1921]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of seven who became the 402nd
players (402)
to appear for England.
41st goalkeeper to appear. |
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper |
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Only match |
No. 124, 14 March 1921,
Wales
0
England 0,
a British Championship match at Ninian Park, Sloper
Road, Cardiff, aged 31 years
146 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1920-21; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur
(four appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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He was an accountant by profession.
Served on the Dulwich Hamlet committee for many years, also as a selector
and member of their Finance Committee. Later was the club's Honorary
Assistant Treasurer, retiring on health grounds in 1956, when he was made
a Life Member. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.70. |
