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James Medcalf

English footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ100699907 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Thomas Medcalf (2 May 1895 – 1980) was an English footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Hull City.

Personal life

At the time he appeared for Hull City, Medcalf worked in a sawmill. He served as a private in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during the First World War and was invalided out of the army in 1918. After the war, he worked as a wool machinist in Hull.

Editorial summary

“James Medcalf” enters the record as english footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Medcalf and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1980, 1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895-05-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Medcalf and English.
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Why this record matters

“James Medcalf” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, James, Medcalf and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q100699907. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1895, 1980 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Medcalf” 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.