1944/45 War Competition

President: Sir Charles Mander.

Directors: James S Baker (Chairman), RH Archer (Vice Chairman); B Matthews, J Evans, AH Oakley, JT Howley (Assistant Secretary).
Secretary Manager: Ted Vizard.
Trainer: Jack Davies.
Captain: Cyril Sidlow.

Playing Staff: John Abbotts, John Acquroff, Leonard Adams, Emilio Aldecoa, Jim Alderton, William Allbones, Gordon Allcock, Bob Allen, Leslie Andrews, Derek Ashton, Arthur Bainbridge, Stanley Ball, Harry Barratt, Ted Batchelor, Alan Bates, Billy Baxter, John Beddows, Ron Bennett, Richard Betts, Roy Bicknell, Don Bilton, Stanley Booth, Frank Brassington, Gilbert Brooks, Henry Brown, Joe Brown, Sailor Brown, Cameron Buchanan, James Buckley, Timothy Bunn, Thomas Burden, Leonard Burke, Frank Burns, Albert Burrows, Cyril Burton, Walter Caddick, Charles Campbell, Robert Carr, Raymond Carter, David Caunt, Ray Chatham, Francis Christopher, John Churchill, George Clarke, James Clewes, Sid Clewlew, Jeffrey Coley, Bryan Commons, Peter Cook, George Crilly, Stanley Critchlow, Alf Crook, Billy Crook, Roy Cross, Nig Nog Crowe, George Cryle, Stan Cullis, Richards Cumming, James Dailey, John Dailey, Wilfred D’Arcy, Fred Davenport, Dilwyn Davies, Ken Davies, Raymond Dewfall, Dickie Dorsett, Jack Dowen, Horace Dunn, Jimmy Dunn, Arthur Eades, Ted Elliott, Harry Evans, Micky Fenton, Lester Finch, Eric Fisher, John Flavell, Desmond Frost, Patrick Gair, Tom Galley, Joe Gardiner, George Gibbons, Laurie Gillam, Raymond Goddard, Arthur Goldthorpe, Billy Green, Walter Griffiths, James Gunning, Arthur Hadley, Robert Hancock, Cyril Hannaby, Alfred Harper, John Harris, Roy Harris, Albert Harvey, Fred Haycock, Stanley Hayes, David Hazelton, Eric Heath, Wilf Heathcote, Trevor Hill, Reg Hipkin, Roy Hobson, Wallace Hobson, Harold Holden, Kenneth Holland, Leonard Houghton, Ernest Hughes, Vivian Hughes, Harry Iddon, Dennis Isherwood, James Jackman, Donald James, Ronald James, Alan Jenkinson, Jimmy Jinks, Bert Johnson, Alan Jones, David Jones, James Jones, Jack Kaye, Lawrence Kelly, Michael Kelly, Bobby King, John Kirkham, Reginald Kirkham, Thomas Larkin, Jimmy Lee, Kenneth Lee, Norman Lee, Peter Leek, Edward Levett, Teddy Maguire, Kenneth Malcolm, Patrick Maloney, John Marshall, Neil Marshall, Frank Mayman, Gerry McAloon, Thomas McGuinness, Alexander McIntosh, Gus McLean, Doug McMahon, Irvine Methley, Reginald Michael, Charles Miller, Thomas Millmore, Fred Mitchell, Charlie Mitton, Kenneth Morgan, Bill Morgan, Desmond Morris, Bill Morris, Jimmy Mullen, John Murray, Jack Musk, Les Mynard, Joseph Noon, Charles Norton, Royston Oakley, Derrick Ogden, Joseph O’Neill, Ivan Owen, William Park, Harold Parker, William Parker, Sidney Parkes, John Parr, Dennis Parsons, George Paterson, John Paxton, Eric Pell, Norman Phillips, Leonard Pickard, Stanley Pickstock, Sid Plunkett, Kenneth Potts, Harold Prince, Roy Pritchard, Arthur Pugh, Sidney Pugh, Fred Ramscar, William Reed, Ronald Rice, Ernest Rivers, Jeffrey Robbins, Douglas Roberts, Stanley Roberts, Wilfred Roberts, Albert Robinson, John Robinson, Walter Robinson, Leslie Rotherham, Peter Roughsedge, Jack Rowley, John Sanderson, Alex Scott, Laurie Scott, Colin Senior, William Shergold, Bill Shorthouse, Cyril Sidlow, Barney Singleton, Billy Skidmore, Jack Smith, David Smith, Les Smith, Ronald Smith, Walter Smith, Alf Somerfield, Terry Springthorpe, Royston Starr, Colin Steelyard, Alan Steen, Arnold Stephens, Albert Stevens, Ernie Stevenson, John Strachen, Roy Swift, Edgar Taylor, Frank Taylor, Ray Taylor, Walter Thomas, Dennis Thornhill, Alonzo Thornton, Joseph Tinney, William Tommy, Cecil Topham, George Turner, Ben Turner, Leonard Turner, Maurice Varney, Alfred Walker, Donald Walker, Edward Walker, Henry Walters, John Wardle, Raymond Washbrook, John Wells, Dennis Westcott, Leonard Westwood, Guy Wharton, Horace Wilkes, Gordon Williams, Leonard Williams, Richard Williams, William Williams, George Willis, Dennis Wilshaw, James Wilson, George Withycombe, James Wood, Ray Wright, Billy Wright, Ronald Yates.

Club Finances: At the clubs annual meeting at the end of the season it announces a profit of £458 15s 8d. The club’s property and assets stand at £55,656 and the subscribed capital is £8,948.