Remembrance: The players we lost in war

Here, with the help of United's museum curator Mark Wylie, we pay tribute to the men who played for our football club and then perished in war...

BOER WAR

Driver 12690 Gilbert Godsmark | Army Service Corps (att. 75th Battery Royal Field Artillery) | Newton Heath 1900

Although he wasn’t a serving soldier when he joined Newton Heath, Godsmark was called up just months later as a former soldier at a time of national emergency. Regarded as quite a prospect on the football pitch, having been spotted by ex-Heathens forward Bob Donaldson while playing in Kent, the 25-year-old succumbed to disease while serving in Pretoria.

WORLD WAR I

Sergeant 11677 Arthur Beadsworth | 7th (Service) Battalion…