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3 unusual facts about Arnold Birch


Arnold Birch

Be Quick won the Eerste Klasse North and qualified for the Championship play-off finishing fifth.

After a flee from Antwerpen, Belgium with his division in October 1914, he spent World War I in a prisoner-of-war camp in Groningen, Netherlands playing football in the highly rated internal competition alongside Harry Waites.

He joined local side Be Quick in 1916 as a masseuge and later as coach and was allowed to play for the team in 1918.



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