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THIS TABLET is erected by sympathising friends and comrades in memory of ROBERT L. SEDDON, (Captain of the
English Footballers), drowned in the River Hunter at West Maitland 15 August 1888, AGED 28 YEARS.
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732:"The Seddon Memorial Movement"
536:. London League. p. 178.
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