Tom Rowlandson


Thomas Sowerby Rowlandson MC was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Sunderland and Newcastle United as a goalkeeper. He represented the England amateur national team.

Career

Rowlandson signed for Newcastle from Sunderland in October 1905, expecting to secure a permanent place in the team and more regular appearances. He would only make a single league appearance for Newcastle in October 1905, where they beat Nottingham Forest 3–2.

Personal life

Rowlandson attended Charterhouse School and Trinity College was a Cambridge University blue. After the breakout of the First World War in August 1914, he gave over his farmhouse for use as a hospital supply depot. Rowlandson subsequently enlisted in the British Army in Northallerton and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment on 5 September 1914. By 17 April 1915, he was on the Western Front, fighting in the Second Battle of Ypres. By 1 January 1916, he had been promoted to captain, mentioned in dispatches and won the Military Cross. Rowlandson was killed after being hit in the shoulder by a German grenade on 15 September 1916, during the Battle of Flers–Courcelette. He was buried at Bécourt Military Cemetery.

Honours

Corinthian