Robert Frith

Robert William Frith (1892–1939) was an English professional footballer who played as a half back in the Football League for Rotherham County, South Shields and Derby County.

Personal life
Frith was married with two children and at one time worked as a furnace man in Sheffield. On 16 December 1914, four months after the outbreak of the First World War, Frith enlisted in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He had two toes amputated in May 1915 and was transferred to the regiment's 27th (Reserve) Battalion in November 1915. Frith was released from the army during the following month to work in a munitions factory in Sheffield. He was posted to the Middlesex Regiment Depot in Aldershot in March 1916 and was discharged from the army in January 1919.