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Reg
Osborne |
Leicester City FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
0 L 1 F 1: A 2
0% successful
1927
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Corporal Reginald Osborne |
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Birth |
23 July 1898
in Wynberg, Gauteng, South Africa
[not registered in
UK]. |
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Not on the 1901
census, his younger siblings were still being born in South Africa up
until 1906. |
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According to the 1911
census, Reginald is the eldest of the four children at home, with parents
John William and Emily Anne (née Cudlipp), living at 'Waverley', in
Netley Abbey in Hampshire. His father is part of the Royal Army Medical
Corps. The census reveals that his parents had ten children, and two had
died. |
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According to the
1921 census, Reginald is a corporal in the McGregor Barracks, 31 St.
Michael's Road in Aldershot.
According to passenger lists, Osborne, along with other
footballers, was part of a tour of South Africa that returned to
Southampton on 5 August 1929 from Cape Town on board the SS Arundel
Castle. His address was stated as 14 Brunswick Road in Kingston. |
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According to the 1939 register, Reginald is a blinds salesman, still
single, and living at 8 Fullbrooks Avenue in Old Malden area of Worcester,
with his brother, Frank, and sister-in-law, Kathleen. |
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Death |
Spring
1977, aged
78 years nk days
[registered in Hounslow, Middlesex, June 1977]. |
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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
playing football while he was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
From where he was playing with the Watling Street Boot Company FC in
Leicester. It was with Leicester City FC that he signed amateur forms with
in February 1923. He turned professional shortly afterwards and remained
at Filbert Street until his transfer in 1933, having made 240
league appearances, and scored just twice. On 17 November that
year, he had joined Folkestone FC, as the £650 asking price was too much
for the League Clubs, West Ham United FC and AFC Bournemouth. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Two
winners 1924-25; Division One
runners-up 1928-29; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
10½", 11st.
2lbs [1927]. 11st. 3lbs [1928 & 1929]. |
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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 three who
became the 524th
player (525)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-back |
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First match |
No. 158, 28 November 1927,
England 1 Wales 2, a British Championship match at Turf Moor, Brunshaw Bottom, Burnley, aged
29 years
128 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1927-28; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur (two appearances); FA
Tour of South Africa 1929; |
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Distinctions |
Brother of Frank Osborne.
Despite being born in South Africa, as a British Subject, their father was
born in Huntingdonshire, thus allowing him to play for England. |
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Beyond England |
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No additional information. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.188. |
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