1909 Pim, A.W
A W Pim was a local amateur who appeared for the reserves, usually at half-back, in the Plymouth and District League between 1909 and 1912 during the early seasons of the club's professional era. He did not appear for the first-team in the Southern League.
Ashley Walter Pim was born in Exeter in 1886 and played for City as an amateur whilst working as a brass finisher for Willey's, the gas meter manufacturer. Married to Mabel Loosemore in 1913, he was living in Regent Street, St Thomas when he joined the 27th Division Signal Company (Wessex) shortly after the start of the Great War. A corporal from February 1915, he had served at the Front from December 1914 and was promoted to sergeant in May 1915 when he was also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for "keeping up communication in the recent heavy fighting under heavy fire and rifle fire." (as reported in the Western Times 4 June 1915).
Ashley Walter Pim was born in Exeter in 1886 and played for City as an amateur whilst working as a brass finisher for Willey's, the gas meter manufacturer. Married to Mabel Loosemore in 1913, he was living in Regent Street, St Thomas when he joined the 27th Division Signal Company (Wessex) shortly after the start of the Great War. A corporal from February 1915, he had served at the Front from December 1914 and was promoted to sergeant in May 1915 when he was also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for "keeping up communication in the recent heavy fighting under heavy fire and rifle fire." (as reported in the Western Times 4 June 1915).
A member of the Exeter Working Men's Society and later well-known in local pigeon racing circles, he had started his football career with Friernhay and was renowned as a "plucky" performer on the field of play. Eventually working for Willey's until the age of seventy, he had completed fifty-five years service by the time of his retirement in 1956 and continued to live in St Thomas until his death at the age of eighty-six in 1972.
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