Harrison Eke

Harrison Eke was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-right in the Southern Football League for Southampton.

Personal life

Eke worked as a milkhand. On 21 September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers. Serving as a private, Eke contracted tuberculosis during service and was medically discharged on 7 June 1916. He died of the disease on 30 April 1917 in Bexleyheath and was buried in Bexleyheath Cemetery.