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Eric Stephenson
Personal details
Born (1914-09-17)17 September 1914
Bexleyheath, England
Died 8 September 1944(1944-09-08) (aged 29)
British Burma

Joseph Eric Stephenson (17 September 1914 – 8 September 1944)[1] was an English who played as an inside left at both professional and international levels.

Career[]

Born in Bexleyheath, Stephenson signed for Leeds United in 1933, turned professional in 1934, and made his first-team debut in 1935.[2]

Stephenson also earned two international caps for England in 1938.[3]

War service[]

After leaving Leeds in 1941 to become a Major in the Gurkha Rifles, Stephenson died in active service in British Burma in September 1944 and is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar.[2][4] His younger brother Ernest had died in action August 1943, at the age of 27.[5][6]

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