Charles Haynes (footballer)

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Charles Haynes
Personal information
Full name Charles Edward Haynes
Date of birth(1855-07-08)8 July 1855
Place of birth Hampstead, Middlesex, England
Date of death 29 October 1935(1935-10-29) (aged 80)
Place of death Torquay, Devon, England
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1875–78 Royal Engineers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charles Edward Haynes (8 July 1855 - 29 October 1935) was an officer in the Royal Engineers and an association footballer, who played in the 1878 FA Cup final.

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Early life

He was born in Hampstead in Middlesex (now Greater London), on 8 July 1855, [1] the son of a successful builder named William Haynes, and his wife, Mary Ann (formerly Spragg). Haynes attended the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned as lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in July 1875, having scored the second highest marks on passing out for the year; future football team-mate Oliver Ruck had the fifth-highest score. [2]

Football career

Soon after joining the Engineers at Chatham, he played for the Sappers' second XI in a defeat at home to Rochester. [3] He scored his first goals for the seconds in a 4–0 win over the obscure Gore Court club of Sittingbourne in January 1876, [4] and stepped up to the firsts for a win over the Gitanos a week later. [5]

He made his competitive debut as a centre-forward for the Sappers in the first round of the 1876–77 FA Cup, in a narrow 2–1 win over the Old Harrovians at the Kennington Oval. [6] He played in all four rounds in which the Sappers took part that season, and missed out on the first two rounds of the 1877–78 FA Cup, scoring on his return to the side in a third round hammering of Druids. [7] He also scored in the last 6 stage replay against Oxford University, [8] and played in the final, which the Sappers lost to the Wanderers. [9]

Army career

His football career was cut short by army service; he was sent with the 2nd Field Company to South Africa in December 1878. He particularly distinguished himself by using a shaving-mirror to develop a system of heliograph signals for transmitting messages to the garrison at Ekowe. [10] He was twice mentioned in dispatches for conduct in the Zulu War, and also took part in the Bechuanaland Expedition in 1884. [11]

He was commissioned as captain on 28 January 1886, major on 1 October 1894, lieutenant-colonel on 15 November 1901 (when he was sent to Ireland), and colonel on 15 November 1904. [12] He seemed to have ended his army career as Chief Engineer of the Eastern Coast defences in 1912, when he reached retirement age. [13] However he was recalled for service in the First World War [14] before his final retirement.

Personal life

In 1890 he married Elizabeth Maude, the daughter of Sir Henry Edward Williams KCB. They had three sons. [15] He was appointed Companion of the Military Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours. [16]

His home was at Roborough House on Furze Hill Road in Torquay, and he died at the Mount Stuart Nursing Home in the same town on 29 October 1935. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ British Army records and lists 1882-1962. Kew Gardens: HMSO. 1962. p. 758.
  2. ↑ "Royal Military Academy". Week's News: 8. 31 July 1875.
  3. ↑ "Royal Engineers (Second XI) v Rochester". Sportsman: 6. 20 November 1875.
  4. ↑ "Royal Engineers (Second Eleven) v Gore Court". Field: 146. 5 February 1876.
  5. ↑ "Royal Engineers v Gitanos". Morning Post: 3. 7 February 1876.
  6. ↑ "The English Association Cup". Sheffield Daily Telegraph: 4. 6 November 1876.
  7. ↑ "Royal Engineers v Druids". Bell's Life: 4. 2 February 1878.
  8. ↑ "Oxford University v Royal Engineers". Bell's Life: 4. 2 March 1878.
  9. ↑ "Football Association Cup Final Tie". Referee: 6. 25 March 1878.
  10. ↑ "How signals to Ekowe were established". Central Somerset Gazette: 3. 3 May 1879.
  11. ↑ "The Army". Belfast News-Letter: 7. 10 January 1902.
  12. ↑ Hart, Lt. Gen. H. G. (1908). Hart's Annual Army List. Albemarle St: John Murray. p. 39a.
  13. ↑ "Military news". Globe: 10. 6 July 1912.
  14. ↑ "Charles Edward Haynes". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  15. ↑ "Residents of a house 6 in Roebuck (Part of) (Dundrum, Dublin)". National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  16. ↑ "Additional honours". Scotsman: 8. 20 June 1911.
  17. ↑ Calendar of all grants of probate H.I.J.K. Birkenhead: Willmer Brothers & Co. 1936. p. 159.
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