Famous Footballer as an absentee

FAMOUS FOOTBALLER AS AN ABSENTEE

September 29, 1916. The Liverpool Echo

Walter Holbem, who formerly played full back for Everton, Preston North End and Southport Central, was charged at Southport, today under the Military Service Act, with being an absentee from the Army. It was stated by Detective Bull that he saw defendant’s wife in respect to the matter, and today Holblem went to the police station and said he would give himself up in order to save his wife trouble. Defendant said he came to see the recruiting officer, not the police. Lieutenant Winterbottom chief recruiting officer, said defendant was an unattested married man who had received three notices to report, but had not responded. He was a very well-known man, and was on the books of Southport Central F.C., at the present moment. Defendant was fined 40s and remanded for an escort.