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Arthur Roe (footballer)

association football player (1892-1960)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ22019317 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arthur Roe (1892–1960) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Luton Town, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Arsenal as a half back.

Personal life

Four months after the outbreak of the First World War, Roe enlisted in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment on 16 December 1914.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Arthur Roe (footballer)” as association football player (1892-1960). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arthur, footballer and association.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1960, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arthur, footballer and association providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Arthur Roe (footballer)”, the useful work is to connect “association football player (1892-1960)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q22019317. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1960 and 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur Roe (footballer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.