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Steve Chettle
Excellent, both in the research and the result.
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Stuart Pearce
I have found three others on Forest's books who had died by the time that Perry died.
They appear to be players that at that point hadn't been heavily involved in the first team. They were
Ashley Kenneth Hunt (Ken)
Samuel Grenville Roberts (Grenville)
Samuel Bernard Northern (Bernard)
They appear to be players that at that point hadn't been heavily involved in the first team. They were
Ashley Kenneth Hunt (Ken)
Samuel Grenville Roberts (Grenville)
Samuel Bernard Northern (Bernard)
Steve B
Jack Armstrong
Here’s Colin Perry, killed in Tobruck in ‘42 aged 26.
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Jack Armstrong
I got those pictures from the brilliant Forest Preservation Society site by the way - you can see the whole WW2 thread here.
They mention Harry Race, Joe Crofts and Samuel Roberts were three other Forest players killed in action.
They mention Harry Race, Joe Crofts and Samuel Roberts were three other Forest players killed in action.
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Jack Armstrong
Harry Race, signed from Man City, played for Forest 1933-37. Killed at El-Alamein in 1942.
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Stuart Pearce
Ashley Kenneth Hunt was in the army but died at Holme Peirrpoint. He was found with a rifle in his lap but it wasn't clear how the gun was discharged according to reports. 
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Stuart Pearce
(The People, Sunday, January 15, 1939)
Long Acre Tells You About…
Long Acre Tells You About…
…WHERE there wasn’t any frost and ice there was fog - and loads of it. The Nottingham Forest players found most of it. They were due at Tottenham, but ten minutes before the kick-off there was no sign at all of the Foresters. They were held up in the fog. As soon as they reached London, the Nottingham men jumped into taxis and changed on the way, and they did the job so slickly that the match began no more than five minutes late.
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Stuart Pearce
In 1960 Forest's youngsters took part in a tournament in Wuppertal, Germany. The newspaper site has gone down so I can't see anything but the index preview of other reports, but it looks like we were Britains only representatives, and that we didn't concede in the competition. We won the final 7-0 against Austria's Salzburg.
(Nottingham Evening News, Saturday, April 23, 1960)
Young Reds Praised.
Hanns H. Doerr, writing on the youth soccer festival in a Wuppertal paper says:
Nottingham Forest cams, and conquered… the experts among the spectators were rapturous about the classy play of the Englishmen; and indeed when have we had the chance to see such typical English football?
“The juniors of the Cup winners of 1959 played like those former British teachers of football about whom we used to rave. This team had the finesse and tricks of a fully fledged professional eleven. Their play with or without the ball, the sprinting, the direct passes, the strong shooting, the trapping of the ball, in themselves made the tournament worthwhile.”
“It would be no discourtesy to say that against these lads, the first team of WSV (Wuppertaler Sportverein) would have had difficulty in winning!”
“Geoff Vowden was the master… his name will be heard again. The British team formed the chief topic of conversation throughout the tournament.”
“Others who will make careers were stopper John Gill, outside left Le Flem, Wealthall and Winfield.”
“It was in accord with the youth football set-up in England (it is after all the reservoir for professionals) that leading committeemen of the Forest came with the team to Wuppertal, and characteristically, after the Wednesday all such amusements as dancing, etc. were ‘out.’”
“In such wise, with excellent discipline, do they build up their juniors.”
The main headline in the paper declared: Junior pros (Nottm. Forest) give a lesson in football at WSV Tournament.”
(Nottingham Evening News, Saturday, April 23, 1960)
Young Reds Praised.
Hanns H. Doerr, writing on the youth soccer festival in a Wuppertal paper says:
Nottingham Forest cams, and conquered… the experts among the spectators were rapturous about the classy play of the Englishmen; and indeed when have we had the chance to see such typical English football?
“The juniors of the Cup winners of 1959 played like those former British teachers of football about whom we used to rave. This team had the finesse and tricks of a fully fledged professional eleven. Their play with or without the ball, the sprinting, the direct passes, the strong shooting, the trapping of the ball, in themselves made the tournament worthwhile.”
“It would be no discourtesy to say that against these lads, the first team of WSV (Wuppertaler Sportverein) would have had difficulty in winning!”
“Geoff Vowden was the master… his name will be heard again. The British team formed the chief topic of conversation throughout the tournament.”
“Others who will make careers were stopper John Gill, outside left Le Flem, Wealthall and Winfield.”
“It was in accord with the youth football set-up in England (it is after all the reservoir for professionals) that leading committeemen of the Forest came with the team to Wuppertal, and characteristically, after the Wednesday all such amusements as dancing, etc. were ‘out.’”
“In such wise, with excellent discipline, do they build up their juniors.”
The main headline in the paper declared: Junior pros (Nottm. Forest) give a lesson in football at WSV Tournament.”
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Wuppertal is a lovely old city, most famous for its fantastic monorail-railway, which was (and still is) ahead of its time.