Friday 11 November 2022 11:00Share With emailWords like 'heroic' are so widely used in football these days that it's easy to forget their true meaning. Yet there are some Manchester United players, including from the Newton Heath era, for whom the use of such a term is fully deserved.Here, with the help of United's museum curator Mark Wylie, we pay tribute to the men who played for our football club and then perished in war... BOER WAR Driver 12690 Gilbert Godsmark | Army Service Corps (att. 75th Battery Royal Field Artillery) | Newton Heath 1900 Although he wasn't a serving soldier when he joined Newton Heath, Godsmark was called up just months later as a former soldier at a time of national emergency.

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