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Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian
football goalkeeper The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing team from ...
, playing for the club
SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bergen. Founded on 26 September 1908, Brann has played in the first tier of Norwegian football for 67 out of 80 seasons, the second most of any club. They play their hom ...
. He was born in
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. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920; they reached the quarter finals. He was
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14 times for Norway. A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
he sailed as first engineer with SS ''Risøy'', which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off
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, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in
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six days later. He was buried at
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, Swansea.https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record. Date retrieved 4 October 2020.


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* 1898 births 1942 deaths Footballers from Copenhagen Norwegian men's footballers Norway men's international footballers Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Norway Nortraship people Norwegian civilians killed in World War II Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II Men's association football goalkeepers SK Brann players {{Norway-footy-goalkeeper-stub