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Sport heroes killed in battle including footy star who took out machine gun nest
- Donald Simpson, Bradford Park Avenue, earned the Victoria Cross for bravery at the Somme, dying a month after his wedding.
- Leigh Roose, Welsh goalkeeper, received the Military Medal and died on the Somme at 38.
- Sandy Turnbull of Manchester United and Manchester City was killed at Arras in 1917.
- Cyril Tooze, Arsenal stalwart, fell to a sniper in 1944 in Italy during World War II.
- Charles Ladd, linked to Luton Town, died aboard HMS Hood after the Bismarck engagement.
- Tom Cooper, England/Liverpool footballer, died in a Royal Military Police motorbike crash in 1940.
- Ronnie Poulton-Palmer, England rugby captain, was killed by sniper fire in Belgium during WWI.
- John Lander, Olympic rower, was killed fighting the Japanese in Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.
- Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis star, killed in 1915 on the Western Front.
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