Albert Bonass

Albert Bonass
Personal information
Full name Albert Edward Bonass[1]
Date of birth (1911-05-29)29 May 1911[2][a]
Place of birth Acomb, Yorkshire, England
Date of death 9 October 1945(1945-10-09) (aged 34)
Place of death Tockwith, Yorkshire, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3]
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Dringhouses
– York Wednesday
1932–1933 Darlington 6 (1)
1933–1934 York City 6 (0)
1934–1936 Hartlepools United 77 (31)
1936–1939 Chesterfield 97 (26)
1939–1945 Queens Park Rangers[b] 0 (0)
Total 186 (58)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Albert Edward Bonass (29 May 1911 – 9 October 1945) was an English footballer who scored 58 goals from 186 appearances in the Football League playing as an outside left for Darlington, York City, Hartlepools United and Chesterfield.[1]

Bonass spent the second half of the 1932–33 season as an amateur with Darlington in the Third Division North. He then returned to his home town where he turned professional with York City. He played six league matches for each club. In 1934, he joined another Third Division club, Hartlepools United, where he established himself as the regular selection at outside-left and scored at better than a goal every two games in his first season. Less prolific in his second year, he was sold to Chesterfield, newly promoted to the Second Division for 1936–37. Again, he was first choice on the left wing and productive in front of goal during his first season, less so in the next, in which he helped the team reach the fifth round of the 1937–38 FA Cup. In 1938–39, he fell out of favour, and requested a transfer. He joined Queens Park Rangers, but his career was cut short by the outbreak of war.

During the Second World War, Bonass served in the Metropolitan Police's War Reserve and then as a wireless operator in the Royal Air Force. He was killed in October 1945, together with the rest of the crew and a civilian on the ground, when his Short Stirling bomber crashed on a training flight.

  1. ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
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