| 词条 | Matthew Armstrong (English footballer) |
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|name = Matthew Armstrong |image = |image_size = |caption = |fullname = Matthew Armstrong[1] |birth_date = {{birth date based on age at death|df=y|22|1941|7|12}} |birth_place = High Spen,[1] County Durham, England |death_date = {{death date|1941|7|12|df=y}} (aged 22) |death_place = |height = {{convert|5|ft|10|in|m}}[1] |position = Wing half |youthyears1 = – |youthclubs1 = |years1 = 1936–1939 |clubs1 = Darlington |caps1 = 38 |goals1 = 2 |years2 = 1939–19?? |clubs2 = Aston Villa |caps2 = 0 |goals2 = 0 }}Matthew Armstrong (1918 or 1919 – 12 July 1941) was an English footballer who made 38 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Darlington in the 1930s.[2] He joined Aston Villa in 1939 – a preview in the Daily Express highlighted him as one of "two young defenders who look as if they have that certain Soccer something"[3] – but he never played for Villa's first team before the league was abandoned for the duration of the Second World War.[2][4] Armstrong died on active service on 12 July 1941, aged 22, while serving in the Middle East as a private with 149 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.[5] References1. ^{{cite news|title=Sykes Transferred|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000768/19390627/347/0011|accessdate=8 August 2017|newspaper=Birmingham Mail|date=27 June 1939 |subscription=yes}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Matthew}}{{England-footy-midfielder-1910s-stub}}2. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=11 |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Villa, Fulham put faith in young players |first=Stanley |last=Halsey |newspaper=Daily Express |date=17 August 1939 |page=14}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.astonvillaplayerdatabase.com/1573.html |title=Armstrong, Matthew |website=Aston Villa Player Database |publisher= |accessdate=9 May 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2145072/ARMSTRONG,%20MATTHEW |title=Casualty details: Armstrong, Matthew |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |accessdate=9 May 2014}} 13 : 1910s births|1941 deaths|People from High Spen|Footballers from County Durham|English footballers|Association football wing halves|Darlington F.C. players|Aston Villa F.C. players|English Football League players|Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers|British military personnel killed in World War II|Date of birth missing|Place of death missing |
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