Joseph Dines

Football, Olympic athlete

1886 – 1918

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Who was Joseph Dines?

Joseph Frank Dines was an English amateur football player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

He represented Great Britain as part of the England national amateur football team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. He played all three matches.

Dines was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he worked as a school teacher. He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor. Dines later moved to the Ilford/South Woodford area. During the First World War, he served as a second-lieutenant in the British Army and was killed in Pas de Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Hagnicourt.

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Born
Apr 12, 1886
England
Nationality
  • England
Died
Sep 27, 1918

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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