1943/44 War Competition

President: Sir Charles Mander.

Directors: B Matthews, (Chairman), James S Baker, RH Archer, J Evans, AH Oakley, JT Howley (Assistant Secretary).
Secretary Manager: Major Frank Buckley (to 7 February), Ted Vizard (from 6 April).
Trainers: Jack Davies; Captain: Cyril Sidlow.

Playing Staff: George Aitken, Emilio Aldecoa, Jim Alderton, William Allbones, Gordon Allcock, Leslie Andrews, George Arnett, Derek Ashton, Ronald Atkins, Arthur Bainbridge, Stanley Ball, Malcolm Barrass, Harry Barratt, Billy Baxter, John Beddows, Geoffrey Bennett, J Bennett, Harold Berwick, Richard Betts, Roy Bicknell, Geoffrey Billingsley, Don Bilton, Stanley Booth, Frank Brassington, Gilbert Brooks, Henry Brown, Nathan Brownswood, Cameron Buchanan, Maurice Buckby, James Buckley, Timothy Bunn, Thomas Burden, Leonard Burke, Frank Burns, Albert Burrows, Cyril Burton, Charles Campbell, Robert Carr, Raymond Carter, Edwards Cartlidge, R Caswell, David Caunt, Douglas Caunt, Ray Chatham, Francis Christopher, G Clark, George Clarke, D Clayton, Sid Clewlew, N Clifford, W Coglin, Derrick Colbourne, Jeffrey Coley, Bryan Commons, W Cope, Cordingly, George Crilly, Alf Crook, Billy Crook, Roy Cross, Vernon Crowe, George Cryle, Stan Cullis, James Dailey, John Dailey, Douglas Darby, Wilfred D’Arcy, Fred Davenport, Ken Davies, Erwin Deller, Dickie Dorsett, Jack Dowen, Maurice Drinkwater, Horace Dunn, Jimmy Dunn, Arthur Eades, Ted Elliott, R Ellis, Harry Evans, John Evans, N Evans,Felton, Frank Fielding, Eric Fisher, Joseph Ford, L Forrester, Robert Fox, Tom Galley, Joe Gardiner, G Giles, Laurie Gillam, Charles Goddard, Raymond Goddard, Arthur Goldthorpe, Billy Green, Walter Griffiths, Arthur Hadley, Robert Hancock, Cyril Hannaby, R Hannaby,R Harper, John Harris, Victor Harris, T Harrison, Albert Harvey, Fred Haycock, Stanley Hayes, Lancelot Hayward, David Hazelton, Eric Heath, Reg Hipkin, Roy Hobson, Wallace Hobson, Harold Holden, Kenneth Holland, Leonard Houghton, William Houghton, Vivian Hughes, L Hunter, Neville Hurley, Dennis Isherwood, James Jackman, Ronald James, A James, Alan Jenkinson, Bert Johnson, Jones, James Jones, Jack Kaye, Lawrence Kelly, Michael Kelly, Bobby King, Reginald Kirkham, Thomas Larkin, W Leafe, Kenneth Lee, Norman Lee, Peter Leek, Joseph Lees, Peter Leigh, Edward Levett, William Lovesey, Teddy Maguire, Kenneth Malcolm, C Mann, John Marshall, Neil Marshall, D Martin, Frank Mayman, J Maynham, Gerry McAloon, James McDonough, P McGowan, Thomas McGuinness, James McGuire, Alexander McIntosh, Gus McLean, Doug McMahon, John Menzies, Irvine Methley, Reginald Michael, Thomas Millmore, R Minors, Kenneth Morgan, Bill Morgan, Desmond Morris, Bill Morris, Jimmy Mullen, Jimmy Mulvaney, John Murray, Jack Musk, Les Mynard, Newton, Joseph Noon, Charles Norton, Derrick Ogden, Joseph O’Neill, Ivan Owen, Packard, Harold Parker, William Parker, John Parr, John Paxton, Robert Peach, Pearson, Eric Pell, John Petrie, Leonard Pickard, Stanley Pickstock, Jack Pleasant, Sid Plunkett, Harold Prince, Roy Pritchard, Sidney Pugh, Pullman, Raynor, Alexander Reid, Ronald Rice, Ernest Rivers, Douglas Roberts, Stanley Roberts, Wilfred Roberts, John Robinson, Walter Robinson, Leslie Rotherham, Peter Roughsedge, Jack Rowley, John Sanderson, Denis Sargent, Alex Scott, Shadrake, Jack Shelton, Graham Shenton, Charles Shepherd, William Shergold, Sheridan, Bill Shorthouse, Cyril Sidlow, Silvester, Barney Singleton, Billy Skidmore, Arthur Smith, David Smith, Les Smith, Ronald Smith, Walter Smith, Alf Somerfield, James Southall, Terry Springthorpe, Spyer, Raymond Stanley, Dennis Stansfield, Colin Steelyard, Alan Steen, Arnold Stephens, Albert Stevens, Ernie Stevenson, John Strachen, Bernard Streton, William Sykes, Frank Taylor, William Thomas, Walter Thomas, Dennis Thornhill, Alonzo Thornton, Joseph Tinney, William Tommy, Cecil Topham, George Turner, Ben Turner, Leonard Turner, Maurice Varney, Peter Vause, Alan Wagg, Hubert Wainwright, Alfred Walker, Donald Walker, Edward Walker, William Walker, John Wallis, Henry Walters, John Wardle, Raymond Washbrook, Harry Waugh, Weavers, John Wells, Dennis Westcott, William Wheatley, Whittacker, Edwin Williams, Gordon Williams, Leonard Williams, Willoughby, Dennis Wilshaw, James Wilson, James Wood, Terry Wood,Ray Wright, Billy Wright, Ronald Yates.

Club Finances: Wolves make a loss of £3,585 and for the first time in seventeen years recommend no dividend be paid.

Note: In March 1944 Ben Matthews resigned as Chairman due to ill heath but stayed as a director. James Baker was unanimously elected in his place and Mr RH Archer was elected a Vice Chairman.