Albert Potter | |
Fullname: | Albert Edward Potter[1] |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1897 |
Birth Place: | Exeter, England |
Death Place: | Exeter, England |
Height: | 5ft 10in |
Position: | Left half, left back |
Clubs1: | Woodbury |
Years2: | –1922 |
Clubs2: | Pinhoe |
Years3: | 1922–1927 |
Clubs3: | Exeter City |
Caps3: | 89 |
Goals3: | 3 |
Years4: | 1927–1929 |
Clubs4: | Wigan Borough |
Caps4: | 67 |
Goals4: | 4 |
Years5: | 1929–1930 |
Clubs5: | Colwyn Bay United |
Clubs6: | Devon General Bus Company |
Private Albert Edward Potter (23 September 1897 – 4 May 1942) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Exeter City and Wigan Borough as a left half.[2]
Potter served as a private in the Devonshire Regiment during the First World War and saw action on the Western Front (where he was wounded) and in the Siege of Kut in Mesopotamia.[3] He served as an Air Raid Warden during the Second World War and was killed during the Exeter Blitz in May 1942. Potter was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Whipton, Exeter.