Frank Lindley

Frank Louis Lindley was an English professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Motherwell and Dundee as an outside right. He made one appearance in the Football League for Sheffield United.

Personal life

Lindley served in three battalions of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War, most notably the 1st Football Battalion. He was posted to France in November 1915 and sustained a gunshot wound to the arm at Delville Wood in August 1916, which resulted in him being evacuated to Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast. He returned to France in March 1917, but was sent to hospital in Sheffield with impetigo in July 1917.