Ralph Birkett: part of the South West club that Chapman built within Arsenal

By Tony Attwood Ralph James Evans Birkett was born in Dartmouth, Devon, (or according to other sources Newton Abbot, or Ellacombe Torquay neither of which are far away) on 3 January 1913 (or 9 Jan in other sources).  Birth certificate evidence appears to support Ellacombe. He first made his name playing for the 3rd Division …