Alf Spencer

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Alf Spencer
Personal information
Full name Alfred Spencer [1]
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1913–1914 Clapton Orient 1 (0)
1914–1915 Chatham Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Spencer was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance in the Football League for Clapton Orient as an inside right. [1] [2]

Personal life

Spencer served as a private in the British Army in India and during the First World War. [2] He was wounded twice during the war and was listed as a prisoner of war in May 1918. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 (Third edition, with revisions ed.). Toton, Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 273. ISBN   9781905891610. OCLC   841581272.
  2. 1 2 3 "Our Her-O's: Part 4 of Orient's WW1 Heroes". www.leytonorient.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.