THE TRAGIC TALE OF A FOOTBALLER WHO SERVED IN WW1
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✍️ Robert Whiting, a Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper, challenged the notion that footballers were unpatriotic during World War One and sacrificed himself in the conflict.
👉 Whiting challenged the notion that footballers were unpatriotic during World War One 👉 He joined the 17th Middlesex Regiment, also known as 'The Football Battalion' 👉 He contracted scabies and was sent to a hospital, where he went absent without leave 👉 He was arrested, charged with desertion, and sentenced to nine months of hard labour 👉 Whiting was killed in action on April 28, 1917, during the Battle of Oppy Wood
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