Eddie Garvie

Edwin Stanley 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][3] Garvie captained the club and at the time of his death in 1915, he was described by the Southern Press as the "best all-round player Queen's Park has known for many years.[4][5]

Eddie Garvie
Personal information
Full name Edwin Stanley Garvey[1]
Date of birth 14 September 1892
Place of birth Calton, Scotland[1]
Date of death 15 October 1915(1915-10-15) (aged 23)[2]
Place of death Jülich, German Empire
Position(s) 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

Personal life

Prior to the First World War, Garvie worked as a foreign merchants' clerk.[5] After the outbreak of the war in August 1914, Garvie enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.[4] Serving with the rank of lance corporal,[2] On 25 September 1915, Garvie was wounded in the advance on the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos.[4] He was taken prisoner by the Germans and died of his wounds in a prison hospital in Jülich on 15 October 1915.[4][6] His grave was later moved to the Südfriedhof in Cologne.[2] Garvie's younger brother, Ernest, served as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry during the war and won the Military Cross.[7] He was accidentally killed by a fellow officer during the Battle of the Lys in 1918.[4][5]

References
  1. "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1915–1916" (PDF). Scotlands-war.ed.ac.uk. p. 2. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. "Casualty Details: Edward Garvey". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. "QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". Qpfc.com. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  4. "Queen's Park Football Club and the Great War 1914–1918" (PDF). Queensparkfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  5. Ellsworth, Fred. "Queen's Park Counts the Cost Trench Warfare – The Battle of Loos 1915" (PDF). pp. 6, 16. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. "Edwin Stanley Garvie – Service Record – Football and the First World War". Footballandthefirstworldwar. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  7. "Casualty Details: Ernest Garvey". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 October 2016.


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