Bob Suart

Bob Suart
Personal information
Full name Robert Suart[1]
Date of birth 1882
Place of birth Stockport, England[2]
Date of death 27 September 1918 (aged 35–36)[3]
Place of death Nord, France[3]
Playing position Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Edgeley
1903–1908 Stockport County 142 (13)
1908–1911 Fulham 97 (1)
1911–1915 Port Vale 130 (4)
1915–1917 → Stockport County (guest) 22 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Robert "Bob" Suart (1882 – 27 September 1918) was an English professional football wing half who played in the Football League for Stockport County and Fulham.[1] He was killed in action in World War I.

Football career

Suart played for Stockport County and Fulham, before joining Central League club Port Vale in July 1911.[2] He helped the "Valeites" to win the Staffordshire Senior Cup in 1912, the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1913 and the North Staffordshire Infirmary Cup in 1915.[2] Vale went into abeyance in 1915 and Suart began guesting for Stockport County.[2]

World War I

During the second year of the First World War in 1915, Suart enlisted as a private in the South Lancashire Regiment.[4] He transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment later that year and went on to see action at High Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres during 1916 and 1917.[4] His division was transferred to the Italian Front following the Third Battle of Ypres, but returned to France in April 1918.[4] Suart was killed during a German counter-attack near Gouzeaucourt on 27 September 1918, just over six weeks before the Armistice.[4] He is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial.[3]

Statistics

Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Stockport County1903–04Second Division610061
1904–05Lancashire Combination
1905–06Second Division38330413
1906–07Second Division36220382
1907–08Second Division29300293
Fulham1907–08Second Division610061
1908–09Second Division35010360
1909–10Second Division33030360
1910–11Second Division23010240
Total 971501021
Port Vale1911–12Central League30000300
1912–13Central League33240372
1913–14Central League32281403
1914–15Central League35030380
Total 13041511455

Honours

with Port Vale

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 279. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 283. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  3. 1 2 3 "CWGC - Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Bob Suart - Football and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
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