Raymond William Westwood (14 April 1912 – 9 December 1981) was an English professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who made over 300 appearances in the

Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

as an inside forward. He was capped by England at international level and represented the

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Career

Born in

Amblecote Amblecote is an urban village and one of the most affluent areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. It lies immediately north of the historic town of Stourbridge, extending about one and a half miles from it, an ...

, Westwood played professionally for

and

Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...

and made career totals of 339

appearances and 127 goals. He also played

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for Stourbridge,

Brierley Hill Alliance Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. was an English association football club based in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands. Formed in 1887 from a merger of Brockmoor Harriers and Brockmoor Pickwicks, the club joined the Birmingham & District League in 18 ...

and Darwen. He won six caps for England and represented the

Personal life

Westwood was the nephew of footballer David Stokes and was the uncle of footballer

Duncan Edwards Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid ...

. He served in

53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (United Kingdom), Territorial Army (TA) during World War II. It was descended from the Bolton Artillery, first formed in the Lancashire town of B ...

, during the Second World War.

Honours

England *

British Home Championship The British Home Championship * sco, Hame Internaitional Kemp * gd, Farpais lìg eadar-nàiseanta * cy, Pencampwriaeth y Pedair Gwlad, name=lang (historically known as the British International Championship or simply the International Champio ...

: 1934–35 (shared)

References

1912 births 1981 deaths English footballers England men's international footballers Stourbridge F.C. players Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. players Bolton Wanderers F.C. players Chester City F.C. players Darwen F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football inside forwards English Football League representative players British Army personnel of World War II Royal Artillery personnel People from Dudley Military personnel from Staffordshire {{England-footy-forward-1910s-stub