Jack Barnes

ABOUT JACK BARNES

Forward for several soccer clubs in the interwar years, most notably Watford and Walsall.

Spending close to 10 years in professional football, he retired to work in a munitions plant in WW II.

He was the oldest surviving member of the Football League, and one of the last few professional footballers from the pre- WW II period.

Living to 99 years, he was able to meet his two grand-daughters and four great-grandchildren.

The Russian great goalkeeper Lev Yahin also lived through WW II, though he was only 12 when it broke out.