Dan Drummond

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Dan Drummond
Personal information
Full name Daniel Gilmour Drummond [1]
Date of birth 27 April 1891
Place of birth Govanhill, Scotland
Date of death 1 March 1949(1949-03-01) (aged 57) [2]
Place of death Millport, Scotland
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1910–1913 Queen's Park 69 (6)
1913–1919 Motherwell 10 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Gilmour Drummond (27 April 1891 – 1 March 1949) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Motherwell as an outside right. [1] [3]

Personal life

In November 1915, over a year after Britain's entry into the First World War, Drummond enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was commissioned in April 1917. [4] In November 1917, while serving with the Royal Naval Division, he was wounded in the left leg and evacuated to Seafield War Hospital, Leith. [4] Drummond was demobbed in February 1919 and the leg wound ended his football career. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Drummond, Daniel Gilmour". QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "1949 Drummond, Daniel Gilmour (Statutory registers Deaths 552/ 10)" . Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
  3. ↑ Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  4. 1 2 3 McCrossan, Frank. "Queen's Park And The Great War 1914 To 1918 – The Queen's Park Men Who Served And Survived As At April 2017 – Appendix 1" (PDF). p. 17. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Daniel Drummond". motherwellnet. Retrieved 28 April 2020.


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