Willie Wiseman

Willie Wiseman
Personal information
Full name William S Wiseman[1]
Date of birth 18 October 1896
Place of birth Turriff, Scotland
Date of death 1979 (aged 82–83)[2]
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Playing position Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1922–1930 Queen's Park 264 (0)
National team
1926–1930 Scotland 2 (0)
1926 Scotland Amateurs 1
1927 Scottish League XI 1

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


William S "Willie" Wiseman (18 October 1896 – 1979) was a Scottish amateur football left back who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and later served on the club's committee.[1][3][2] He was capped by Scotland at international level.[4]

Personal life

Wiseman was educated at Fordyce Academy, Portsoy and Aberdeen University,[2] leaving the latter institution in 1916 to fight in the First World War with the Gordon Highlanders.[5] During his time on the Western Front, he was gassed, wounded and posted missing for a week.[5] After the war, he went to India to assist with the restructuring of the British Indian Army.[2] Wiseman's brother Fred won the Military Cross during the course of the war.[2] After leaving the army, Wiseman completed his studies at Glasgow Technical College and later worked as an Assistant Roads Surveyor for Dunbartonshire Council.[2] He took up a Deputy County Surveyor position in Banffshire in 1930.[2][5] He married in 1930 and had one son.[2] Wiseman served as a major in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, recruiting and training personnel in Scotland and then working on infrastructure projects.[2]

Honours

Queen's Park

References

  1. 1 2 "QPFC.com - A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". www.qpfc.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "The Queen's Park Men Who Served And Survived As At October 2016" (PDF). p. 19-21. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. ↑ (Smith 2013, p. 288)
  4. ↑ "Scottish Football Association". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Queen's Park And The Great War: 1914 To 1918" (PDF). p. 17. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Sources


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