George Badenoch

Personal information
Full name	George Huntley Badenoch[1]
Date of birth	9 April 1882
Place of birth	Castle Douglas, Scotland[2]
Date of death	15 June 1915(1915-06-15) (aged 33)[3]
Place of death	Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée, France[4]
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[5]
Position(s)	Outside right, wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1899–1900	Douglas Wanderers
1900–1901	Heart of Midlothian	0	(0)
1901–1903	Glossop	48	(4)
1903–1906	Watford	80	(9)
1906–1907	Tottenham Hotspur	1	(0)
1907–1909	Northampton Town	47	(1)
	Indian Head Thistle
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Huntley Badenoch (9 April 1882 – 15 June 1915) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Football League for Glossop as an outside forward.^[1][6] He made over 125 appearances for Southern League clubs Watford, Northampton Town and Tottenham Hotspur.^[4][7]

Badenoch was an engineer by trade and served in the Galloway Rifle Volunteers prior to leaving Scotland for England in 1901.^[8] His football career ended due to a knee injury.^[5] Following a summer in Canada in 1908,^[9] Badenoch and his wife emigrated to the country in January 1910 and reunited with other members of the Badenoch family in Indian Head, Saskatchewan.^[8] There, he had two children and played for the local cricket club.^[8][10] Badenoch returned to Britain with his family in 1913 and the following year, after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted as a private in the 1st (Western Ontario) Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.^[2][11] At the time of his enlistment, he was working as a sales manager.^[12] Badenoch was posted to the Western Front with his regiment in February 1915 and saw action at St. Julien and Kitcheners' Wood.^[11] He was killed on 15 June 1915, during the Second Action of Givenchy and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.^[3][11]

Watford

• Southern League Second Division: 1903–04^[13]

Northampton Town

• Southern League First Division: 1908–09^[11]