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Rank : Acting Colour Sergeant

Army Number : 11677

Unit : 7th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Hinckley, Leicestershire. Originally enlisted in The Leicestershire Regiment in 1892 and transferred to The King's Royal Rifle Corps, from which he was discharged having falsified his age, and became a professional footballer. At the outbreak of WW1 he enlisted at Leicester. Served with the 7th Battalion, entering France on 29.7.1915. Died of from gas poisoning in France on 9.10.1917, aged 44 years. He is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Further Info: Updated entry from "Of Fossils & Foxes" (2010 edition) regarding football career of Arthur Beadsworth: Beadsworth, Arthur b. Leicester, Oct qtr 1876; d. France, 9th October 1917 Career: Nov 1893 FOSSE; Aug 1894 Leicester YMCA; Jan 1895 Hinckley Town; trials-Notts County & FOSSE; May 1900 FOSSE; cs 1901 Preston North End ; Sept 1901 Coventry City; Oct 1902 Manchester United; cs 1903 Swindon Town; cs 1905 Penrith; Oct 1905 New Brompton; Aug 1906 Burton United; Mar 1907 Hinckley United; cs 1907 Nuneaton Town; Feb 1909 Hinckley United. Fosse debut v Newton Heath (H) 29.9.1900 Released as a teenager, but taken on again by Fosse after figuring in Hinckley's County Cup-winning side of 1900, Arthur this time briefly found senior status as a utility forward, with a debut at outside-right and a trio of outings in the inside-left berth. His League registration then passed to Preston, but he spent the entirety of 1901/2 with Coventry in the Birmingham & District League, and then joined the newly-rechristened club against whom he had made his Fosse debut. A goal on his Manchester United debut at Arsenal proved to be the only one of his entire career, for both he and Burton United were in the final campaign of their League careers when he found himself goalless there after eighteen games. In the interim, his Southern League exploits with Swindon (where he was on the princely sum of £2 per week) and New Brompton had added a more worthy respectability to Arthur's career; though there had been another two-club glitch when it was discovered that he'd signed for Cumberland League side Penrith (where he had held a summer post as cricket professional) as well as for New Brompton. On leaving the game, he entered the boot and shoe trade in Hinckley, but was serving as a sergeant in the Leicesters when he tragically succumbed to gas poisoning on a French WW1 battlefield. Arthur had originally signed up as a soldier in May 1892, but within 25 days of transferring from the Leicestershire Regiment to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in the following September, was found to have
misrepresented his age, and was discharged. Fosse lent him to an understrength Melton Town for one game in April 1894 against their own reserves. LFFC Apps: FL 4

CWGC:

BEADSWORTH, A
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 11677
Date of Death: 09/10/1917
Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: VI. C. 19.
Cemetery: WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:

Husband of Polly Beadsworth, of 44, Derby Rd., Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Date of Birth : 1876

Place of Birth : St. Margaret's, Leicester

Date of Death : 9.10.1917

Place of Death : France

Civil Occupation : Boot and Shoe, Hinckley

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France