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Tommy Harris - Watford Footballer.

William Thomas Harris (known as Tommy Harris) was born in Aberbargoed, South Wales, on 30th June 1913. He joined Watford Football Club as an amateur and made three appearances for Watford in 1936 and then had to wait over 10 years before making his fourth peacetime appearance for the club. In 1939 he joined the Suffolk Regiment and became a Physical Training Instructor, based in Ipswich. He had 73 outings for the club during the war years and guested for Leeds and Ipswich. After the war he went back to Watford and made the majority of his 102 appearances as a full back. He was captain of Watford for a season and completed 12 years at Vicarage Road. After leaving Watford Football Club he worked for De Havilland until his retirement. He moved from Watford to the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in 1990 and attended the Club's centenary match in 1991. His wife Ivy, to whom he had been married for 57 years, died in 1993. Tommy died on 27th January 1997.