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IN MEMORY OF...

...THOSE TOWN SERVANTS WHO DIED ON THIS DAY

September 16

2007
Aged 84

Jimmy JOHNSTON
A £2,500 signing from Elm Park, Jimmy spent two years at Town before taking up the player-manager's job at Merthyr Tydfil in 1955. He died in a nursing home in North Berwick.

2000
Aged 83

Ted MAGUIRE
Ted was at the County Ground just 16 months until September 1948. He died in the County Durham village of Langley Moor, where he had attended school over 70 years earlier.

1947
Aged 51

Jimmy CLARK
Jimmy suffered from inconsistency and the arrival of Harry Morris saw the end of his days at the County Ground. He died from TB in his home town of Gateshead.

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