English footballer
Robert William Frith (1892–1939) was an English professional footballer who played as a half back in the Football League for Rotherham County, South Shields and Derby County.[1]
Personal life
Frith was married with two children and at one time worked as a furnace man in Sheffield.[3] On 16 December 1914, four months after the outbreak of the First World War, Frith enlisted in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.[3] He had two toes amputated in May 1915 and was transferred to the regiment's 27th (Reserve) Battalion in November 1915.[3][4] Frith was released from the army during the following month to work in a munitions factory in Sheffield.[3] He was posted to the Middlesex Regiment Depot in Aldershot in March 1916 and was discharged from the army in January 1919.[3]
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