James Conlin

Jimmy Conlin
Personal information
Full name	James Conlin
Date of birth	6 July 1881
Place of birth	Consett, England
Date of death	23 June 1917 (aged 35)
Place of death	Flanders, Belgium
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s)	Outside left
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Captain Colt's Rovers
	Airdrie St. Margarets
	Cambuslang Hibernian
1899–1901	Falkirk
1901–1904	Albion Rovers
1904–1906	Bradford City
1906–1911	Manchester City
1911–1912	Birmingham
1912–1913	Airdrieonians
1913–1914	Broxburn United
International career
1906	England
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Conlin (6 July 1881 – 23 June 1917) was an English footballer who played as a left-sided winger.

Although born in England he spent most of his life in Scotland. He played club football for Falkirk, Albion Rovers, Bradford City, Manchester City, Birmingham and Airdrieonians between 1899 and 1913.^[1] He represented the England national side once, in 1906, in a match against Scotland,^[2] and he was only the second player in British football to be transferred for a fee of £1,000.^[3] He retired from football in 1914 just prior to the outbreak of the First World War, and was subsequently killed in action on 23 June 1917 while serving his country in Flanders prior to the Third Battle of Ypres.^[4] He has no known remains or grave, his death being commemorated instead on the Nieuport Memorial, Arrondissement Veurne, West-Vlaanderen.^[4]

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^ ^a ^b "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1916–1917" (PDF). edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 24 August 2015. Private Conlin, 15th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, died in Flanders on 23rd June 1917, age 35, and is commemorated on the Nieuport Memorial.

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[UofE-4] "They Died in the Conflict in Season 1916–1917" (PDF). edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 24 August 2015. Private Conlin, 15th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, died in Flanders on 23rd June 1917, age 35, and is commemorated on the Nieuport Memorial.

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