Obituaries

Brian Snowdon passed away recently at the age of 88. He spent four years at Fratton Park and played a key role in Pompey’s winning of the Third Division title in 1962. The centre-half – who spent his National Service with the Royal Air Force …

Mike Barnard obituary Born in Portsmouth on 18 July 1933, the former Portsmouth Grammar Schoolboy was an all-round sportsman and represented both his home city and county in the sports he loved - football and cricket. The youngest of four sons …

Ray Hiron passed away on 5 April 2020 at the age of 76.  Despite that being during the height of the Covid19 pandemic his death was the front page story in the News such was his popularity. Born Raymond Michael Charles Hiron on 22 July 1943 in Go …

Peter Philip Harris, footballer: born Southsea, Hampshire 19 December 1925; played for Portsmouth 1944-59; capped twice by England 1949-54; married; died Hayling Island, Hampshire 2 January 2003. The durable, diamond-bright brilliance of the right-w …

  Gordon Dale was born in Worksop on 28th May 1928 and on leaving school joined his local club Worksop Town. It was there that he was spotted by Chesterfield just fifteen miles away and signed for £500 in February 1948.After time in the Spireite …

Alexander Wilson was born on 29 October 1933 in Buckie in North East Scotland and joined Pompey straight from school. He travelled to Portsmouth in 1949 for a trial and he made his debut, replacing the injured Jimmy Dickinson, at Derby back in Octo …

Cliff Portwood 1937 - 2012 Cliff Portwood yesterday morning (10 January 2012) lost his long battle against a lung complaint, a battle during which he always wore a smile. He passed away in the presence of his family in Basingstoke Hospital, he was …

Albert McCann 1941-2012 It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce (January 2014) the death of one of Pompey`s much loved sons of the sixties, Albert McCann. Albert was seventy two and had been ill for some time.Albert was born on 1 November …