Sigurd Wathne Explained

Sigurd Wathne
Birth Date:	12 February 1898
Birth Place:	Copenhagen, Denmark
Death Place:	Swansea, Wales
Position:	Goalkeeper
Nationalteam1:	Norway
Nationalcaps1:	14

Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian football goalkeeper, playing for the club SK Brann. He was born in Copenhagen. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920;^[1] they reached the quarter finals.^[2] He was capped 14 times for Norway.^[3]

A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during World War II he sailed as first engineer with SS Risøy, which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in Swansea six days later.^{[4] [5] [6]} He was buried at Danygraig Cemetery, Swansea.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sigurd Wathne . Olympedia . 15 August 2021.
2. Web site: Sigurd Wathne . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035058/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/sigurd-wathne-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports-reference.com . 9 February 2012 .
3. Web site: Søfting . Thomas . All-time national team players . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . 16 February 2012 . 21 January 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726003621/http://www.home.no/greenriver/landslaget.html . 26 July 2011 .
4. Encyclopedia: Wathne, Sigurd . 510. Ording. Arne . Arne Ording. Johnson, Gudrun . Garder, Johan . Våre falne 1939-1945. The State of Norway. Oslo. 1951 . 4. Norwegian. 9 February 2012.
5. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.
6. http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/risoy.html
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record. Date retrieved 4 October 2020.