Harrison Eke (February 1888 – 30 April 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-right in the Southern Football League for Southampton.

Personal life

Eke worked as a milkhand. On 21 September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers. Serving as a private, Eke contracted tuberculosis during service and was medically discharged on 7 June 1916. He died of the disease on 30 April 1917 in Bexleyheath and was buried in Bexleyheath Cemetery.

Harrison Eke

Career statistics

References

External links

Harrison Eke at 11v11

1888 births

Date of birth missing

1917 deaths

Burials in Kent

Military personnel from Cambridgeshire

British military personnel killed in World War I

People from Oakington

Men's association football inside forwards

English men's footballers

Southern Football League players

Southampton F.C. players

British Army personnel of World War I

Royal Fusiliers soldiers

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis deaths in England

Footballers from Cambridgeshire

Harrison Eke