Eddie Garvie

Edwin Stanley Garvie was a Scottish amateur football half back and forward who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park. Garvie captained the club and at the time of his death in 1915, he was described by the Southern Press as the "best all-round player Queen's Park has known for many years.

Personal life

Prior to the First World War, Garvie worked as a foreign merchants' clerk. After the outbreak of the war in August 1914, Garvie enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Serving with the rank of lance corporal, On 25 September 1915, Garvie was wounded in the advance on the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and died of his wounds in a prison hospital in Jülich on 15 October 1915. His grave was later moved to the Südfriedhof in Cologne. Garvie's younger brother, Ernest, served as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry during the war and won the Military Cross. He was accidentally killed by a fellow officer during the Battle of the Lys in 1918.