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IN MEMORY OF...

...THOSE TOWN SERVANTS WHO DIED ON THIS DAY

July 1

1975
Aged 88

Dick COATES
Gloucester-born Dick signed amateur forms for Town in 1905 while working as a gas fitter. He later moved to South Wales where he was employed by local government as a groundsman.

1951
Aged 76

Jim EDMUNDS
Jim scored on his only first team appearance in the first Southern League game staged at the County Ground, in October 1895. Club trainer and masseur during the 1920's, he also worked as a clerk for the GWR until retiring in 1935. He died in Torquay.

1911
Aged 42

Wally RICHARDSON
Edinburgh-born full-back Wally was a regular for Town from 1890 to 1896. He was an engine fitter at the GWR works.

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