Non-League Paper

TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR LOCAL LEGEND MORTIMER

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 September 2019

By Jon Couch

PASSED: Charles Mortimer

LEGEND is a word used all too often these days but for those who’ve plied their trade in the north-eastern corner of Hampshire and neighbouring counties for the last 50 years, Charles Mortimore MBE will forever be regarded as one.
A rarity in enjoying hero status at rival clubs Aldershot, Woking and Farnborough, he passed away at a Farnborough nursing home this week after a long illness at the age of 91.
Capped 17 times by England as an Amateur international, he used the experience of a glittering pro career to become the ultimate club servant ...

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