Walter Sidebottom (1 February 1921 â 23 October 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers.
Sidebottom served as an able seaman in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Posted aboard , he was killed in action when the ship was sunk by German torpedo-boat destroyers at the Battle of Sept-ÃÂles on 23 October 1943. Sidebottom is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.