Buckie versus Denmark
the international at Linzee Gordon Park
On Saturday 18 May 1940, shortly after most of the Danish fisherman had arrived in Buckie, there was friendly football match between a local scratch team and some of the recently-arrived Danish fishermen. We are piecing together some details about those named. We know quite a lot about some of them such as Johannes Larsen and Knud Thomsen and their stories will be added soon.
Almost every report in local newspapers about the Danish and Norwegians managed to mangle the spelling of their names; pity the poor report from the Banffshire Advertiser or the Press and Journal having to cope with the strange sounding names. From left to right:
Front row: Chris Thomsen, Anders Nilsen, Knud Thomsen, Niels Petersen, Henrik(?) Juul.
Back row: Borge Jensen, Karlo Thiim, Borge Jensen, Karlo Laursen, Raymond Ericksen and Johannes Larsen.
Front row: Chris Thomsen, Anders Nilsen, Knud Thomsen, Niels Petersen, Henrik(?) Juul.
Back row: Borge Jensen, Karlo Thiim, Borge Jensen, Karlo Laursen, Raymond Ericksen and Johannes Larsen.
FINAL SCORE: Buckie 4 Denmark 4
The scorers for Buckie were W. Geddes, A. Murray, G. Cowie and G. Cowie (no Buckie would have been completed without at least two Cowies). The four Danish goals were scored by Raymond Ericksen, indicating some talent.
and after the match....
Knud Thomsen
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Knud Thomsen, mentioned as a member of the team, remained in Buckie until in death in 2014 and his descendants are weel-kent faces around the town today. A page on Knud will be added shortly.
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Karlo Laugesen Thiim
Karlo Laugesen Thiim came to Buckie on board MB Masen from Denmark. On the 20 June 1940, he, along with a number of others unfamiliar with wartime curfew regulations (10.30pm for aliens) was fined ten shillings for being out beyond the curfew. Karlo married Mary Farquhar Paterson in Buckie in 1945. They later they moved to Hull and had four children. He was naturalised as a British Subject in 1967 when he was living at 44 Alliance Avenue in Hull.
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Borge Jensen
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There were two Borge Jensens on the team. One is believed to have moved to Whitehaven where there was also a significant number of Danish fishermen during the war. He married Alice Bainbridge in 1947 and died in 1958 aged 35. The other Borge Jensen is something of a mystery and may have changed his name to Markedahl but this is still being investigated.
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Johannes Larsen
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In 1943, Johannes Larsen married Catherine Thomson, the daughter of George Thomson who owned Thomson's Boatyard, known as Tappies. Their two daughters were born in Buckie before the family moved back to Esbjerg after the war. Find out more about Johannes and Catherine here.
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