Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian
football goalkeeper, playing for the club
SK Brann. He was born in
Copenhagen
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. He was on the
Norway national team at the
Antwerp Olympics in 1920; they reached the quarter finals.
He was
capped 14 times for Norway.
A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during
World War II
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he sailed as first engineer with
SS ''Risøy'', which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off
Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in
Swansea
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The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...
six days later.
He was buried at
Danygraig Cemetery
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The cemetery opened in 1856 and covers around 20 acres.
The first person to be buried in the cemetery was Fr Charles Kavanagh, the local Roman Catholic Priest re ...
, Swansea.
[https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record. Date retrieved 4 October 2020.]
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1898 births
1942 deaths
Footballers from Copenhagen
Norwegian men's footballers
Norway men's international footballers
Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Norway
Nortraship people
Norwegian civilians killed in World War II
Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II
Men's association football goalkeepers
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