Frederick William Leamon (11 May 1919 – 29 July 1981) was a Jersey professional

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who played in The Football League for Newport County, Bristol Rovers and Brighton & Hove Albion, as well as an international

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player. Leamon was a

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commando and also played for non-League side Bath City before taking up football professionally. He joined Newport County in February 1946, and scored a remarkable 23 goals in 16 unofficial wartime matches for them. On the resumption of League football in the summer of 1946 he played just four games for Newport, scoring three times, before moving to Bristol Rovers. He scored 21 goals in 43 League games during a three-year spell with ''The Pirates'', and also scored four times in eleven games for Brighton & Hove Albion during the 1949–50 season. He then spent a year with non-League

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before finally hanging up his boots in 1951. As well as playing football, Leamon was an accomplished bowls player, representing Wales over twenty times in international competitions, despite being born in Jersey. In Jersey as a young boy, he won the Jersey Cap for Football In later life he worked as a

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for the BBC, and it was while working in this capacity that he suffered a heart attack at

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during the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Despite attempts by a policeman to resuscitate him, he died on the steps of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leamon, Fred 1919 births 1981 deaths Jersey men's footballers 20th-century Royal Marines personnel Men's association football forwards Welsh male bowls players English Football League players Bath City F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. players Bristol Rovers F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Chippenham Town F.C. players People from Saint Clement, Jersey Royal Marines ranks Jersey military personnel