Former Huddersfield Town full-back Larrett Roebuck, the first Football League player to die in the First World War, will today be commemorated by broadcasters Sky Sports.
They will present a statue to the John Smith’s Stadium club as part of 92Live day, during which every Premier and Football League club gets a visit from the Sky Sports News cameras.
Manager Chris Powell will receive the statue in front of relatives of Roebuck this morning.
The miner’s son, a lance-corporal, was 25 when he was killed in the trenches of Beaucamps-Ligny, Northern France, on October 18, 1914.
The father of four, who made 19 Town appearances, was listed as missing in action and his body was never found.
Roebuck served with the York and Lancaster Regiment’s 2nd Battalion and in 2009 15 bodies, thought to be soldiers from the same regiment, were found.
It was thought one of them could be Roebuck’s but that has not been determined, though four bodies remain unidentified.
All the bodies were re-interred in a ceremony last October.
Town paid tribute to Roebuck before their Remembrance game at home to Nottingham Forest in November.
He was one of five Town players to lose their lives in the Great War.
