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2003
Aged 21

Jimmy DAVIS
Tragically killed in a motorway crash on the way to his Watford debut, Jimmy had become a crowd favourite at the County Ground during a three-month loan from Old Traffford in 2002.

2003
Aged 63

Frank LARGE
Frank spent only six months at the County Ground during 1964 - in a League career that brought over 200 goals in 560 games. He later ran a guest house in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland.

1987
Aged 73

Sidney SWINDEN
Full-back Sid was top scorer for Accrington Stanley in 1939/40 ! He later took a job as a toolmaker before retiring to Carnforth in Lancashire.

1976
Aged 82

Bertie DAVIES
When Bert retired as assistant-secretary in 1963 it was fifty years since he first signed on for the Town as a young winger.

1961
Aged 45

Cliff FRANCIS
The Welsh forward was second top scorer to Ben Morton in Town's last pre-War season. Signed from Leeds, he later returned there to work as a social club steward.

1949
Aged 73

Albie EDWARDS
Albie managed to sign for Town on no less than six occasions during a career that meandered through Wiltshire and in and around London. On retiring he moved to Stroud and died at the Horton Road Hospital in Gloucester.

1927
Aged 42

Johnny KIDD
Johnny left Town in 1908 to return to the now defunct Third Lanark, but he ended his career in the Midlands - where he was landlord of the Towns Arms Hotel in Brierley Hill.