Aplin, Frederick

Birthplace

Exeter, Devon 1884

Occupation

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Biographical Text

Already at the club in the days of St Sidwell's United, Frederick Aplin played in the newly-renamed Exeter City’s first match against 110 Battery Royal Artillery on 10 September 1904. 

There is nothihg to suggest that Frederick made any more first-team appearances after the initial fixture although he remained with the club as a regular member of the reserve team.

It is understood that, at one time during the St Sidwell's/early Exeter City years, that Frederick was captain of the 2nd XI with an Albert Aplin as vice-captain. They are likely to have been cousins born within a few months of each other.

The 1901 census shows a Frederick Aplin (then aged seventeen, born Exeter) living in Bartholomew Street and working as a plasterer. Further public records show a Frederick Aplin resident at the West of Eye Infirmary on Magdalen Street, Exeter in 1939 ahead of his death in 1940.

Appearances

Exeter City 1904/05

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