Walter Pollard
Walter Pollard | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 26, 1906 Burnley, Lancashire, England |
| Died | July 26, 1945 (aged 38) Ilford, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Professional footballer |
| Known for | Inside forward in English football |
Walter Pollard (26 September 1906 – 26 July 1945) was a professional English footballer known for his role as an inside forward. He passed away at the age of 38 due to a heart attack in 1945.
Early years
Walter was born in Burnley, Lancashire, as the youngest child among three brothers to parents Robert Pollard and Margaret Ellen Atkinson. The family resided at 55 Nairne Street, where his father worked as a sanitary ware moulder. By the time Walter reached fourteen, he was employed as a cotton weaver at Wood Top Manufacturing Company in Burnley, after the family relocated to 68 Nairne Street.
In the third quarter of 1935, Walter married Gladys May Harrison in West Ham.
Death
On 26 July 1945, Pollard suffered a fatal heart attack in Ilford, Essex, at the age of 38.
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- 1906 births
- 1945 deaths
- Footballers from Burnley
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football inside forwards
- Burnley F.C. players
- West Ham United F.C. players
- FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
- Fulham F.C. players
- Southampton F.C. players
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
- Tunbridge Wells F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Ligue 1 players
- English expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- 20th-century English sportsmen