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Im looking for information on John Gillespie Scottish Football international - Queens Own royal Glasgow yeoman for an article as he made a few guest appearences for Everton FC

Hello rwgbluenose

The website below covers John Gillespie's time playing for Queen's Park football club. He name is mentioned from the 1891/92 season to the 1899/1900 season.

www.qphistory.com/p/season-189192.html

Gillespie wrote letters home during his time in the Boer War, which were published in the Falkirk Mail. Examples are the article below.

falkirklocalhistory.club/wp-content/uplo...-history-society.pdf

It would be best to search the newspapers of Falkirk to see what other letters were published.

Regards

thats absolutely brilliant thank you