Andrew McDermott (1889 – 12 July 1915) was a Scottish professional
footballer
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who played in the
Scottish League for
Leith Athletic
Leith Athletic Football Club is a football club based in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland. They compete in the East of Scotland Football League, Conference A. First team matches are played at Peffermill 3G.
The present club considers itse ...
as a
goalkeeper.
Personal life
McDermott worked as a
lithographer.
After the outbreak of the
First World War in August 1914, McDermott enlisted in the
Royal Scots.
He was serving as an appointed
lance corporal when he received facial wounds at
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula (; tr, Gelibolu Yarımadası; grc, Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, ) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles ...
on 28 June 1915, from which he
died on 12 July 1915.
He was commemorated on the
Helles Memorial
The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula overlooking the Dardanelles. It includes an obelisk which is over high.
The memorial ...
.
References
Scottish footballers
1915 deaths
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel killed in World War I
1889 births
Footballers from Edinburgh
Royal Scots soldiers
Scottish Football League players
Newtongrange Star F.C. players
Leith Athletic F.C. players
Association football goalkeepers
Scottish lithographers
20th-century Scottish male artists
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