Tommy Barber
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Barber[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 20 February 1888[2] | ||
| Place of birth | West Stanley, England | ||
| Date of death | 18 September 1925 (aged 37)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Nuneaton, England[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Half back, inside left | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1905–1906 | Shankhouse | ||
| 1906–1907 | West Stanley | ||
| 1907–1908 | Hamsterley | ||
| 1908–1912 | Bolton Wanderers | 102 | (14) |
| 1912–1919 | Aston Villa | 57 | (9) |
| 1917 | → Brentford (guest) | 2 | (0) |
| 1918 | → Celtic (guest) | 4 | (0) |
| 1918 | → Partick Thistle (guest) | 1 | (1) |
| 1919 | → Linfield (guest) | ||
| 1919 | → Belfast Celtic (guest) | ||
| 1919 | → Distillery (guest) | ||
| 1919 | Stalybridge Celtic | ||
| 1919–1920 | Crystal Palace | 20 | (7) |
| 1920 | Merthyr Town | 2 | (0) |
| 1920 | Ton Pentre | ||
| 1920 | Pontypridd | ||
| 1921–1922 | Walsall | 5 | (2) |
| 1922–1923 | Darlaston | ||
| 1923–1924 | Hinckley United | ||
| 1924–1925 | Barwell United | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Thomas Barber (20 February 1888 – 18 September 1925) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Merthyr Town and Walsall as a half back or inside left.[1][4][5][6][7] He scored the winning goal for Aston Villa in the 1913 FA Cup Final.[8]
Barber attended Todd's Nook School.[9] He served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War and saw action at Delville Wood and Waterlot Farm in the summer of 1916,[2] before suffering gunshot wounds to the legs at Guillemont.[10] Barber was evacuated to Britain and after recovering in Aberdeen,[10] he spent another period in hospital suffering from pleurisy.[11] He was later transferred to the Labour Corps and also worked in a munitions factory in Glasgow.[2] Barber died of tuberculosis in 1925.[2]
