Eddie Garvie

Eddie Garvie
Personal information
Full name Edwin Stanley Garvey[1]
Date of birth 14 September 1892
Place of birth Calton, Scotland[2]
Date of death 15 October 1915(1915-10-15) (aged 23)[3]
Place of death Jülich, Germany
Playing position Half back, forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1911–1914 Queen's Park 85 (7)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Edwin Stanley "Eddie" Garvie (14 September 1892 – 15 October 1915) was a Scottish amateur football half back and forward who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.[1][4] He captained the club.[5]

Personal life

Garvie worked as a foreign merchants' clerk.[6] After the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Garvie enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.[5] Serving with the rank of lance corporal,[3] he was wounded during Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915, taken prisoner and died in a German prison hospital in Jülich on 15 October 1915.[2][7] His grave was later moved to the Südfriedhof in Cologne.[3] Garvie's younger brother, Ernest, served as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry during the war and won the Military Cross.[8] He was killed by a fellow officer during the Battle of the Lys in 1918.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1915-1916" (PDF). Edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  2. 1 2 3 "Queen's Park and the Great War 1914 to 1918" (PDF). p. 6-7. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "QPFC.com - A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". Qpfc.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  5. 1 2 "Queen's Park Football Club and the Great War 1914 - 1918" (PDF). Queensparkfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  6. ↑ "Queen's Park Counts the Cost Trench Warfare - The Battle of Loos 1915" (PDF). pp. 6, 16. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Edwin Stanley Garvie - Service Record - Football and the First World War". Footballandthefirstworldwar. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  8. ↑ Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2016-10-12.


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