Personal information | |||
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Full name | Duncan Currie[1] | ||
Date of birth | 13 August 1892 | ||
Place of birth | Kilwinning, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 1 July 1916[2] | (aged 23)||
Place of death | near Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France[3] | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1912 | Kilwinning Rangers | ||
1912–1915 | Heart of Midlothian | 45 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Duncan Currie (13 August 1892 – 1 July 1916) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back in the Scottish League for Heart of Midlothian.[1]
Currie's brothers Bob and Sam also became footballers.[4] Currie served as a sergeant in McCrae's Battalion of the Royal Scots during the First World War and was killed on the first day of the Somme.[5] He was shot in the right shoulder in no-man's land and died instantly during an assault on La Boisselle.[3][6] Currie is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.[2]
Heart of Midlothian
Club | Season | League | Scottish Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Heart of Midlothian | 1912–13[11] | Scottish First Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 5 | 0 |
1913–14[11] | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[b] | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||
1914–15[11] | 35 | 0 | — | 3[c] | 0 | 38 | 0 | |||
1915–16[11] | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Career total | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 54 | 0 |