News relevant to the club on this day previously
Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...FIXTURES…
1894 - New Brompton 5-2 Old St Stephens SLD2
Fred Manning (2), Arthur Rule (2) and Alfred Jenner were all on target in a comfortable win
1900 - New Brompton 2-1 Q.P.R SLD1
A Bob Innes penalty and a Jack Frettingham effort saw a narrow victory
1906 – Luton Town 0-2 New Brompton SLD1
Former Portsmouth forward Danny Cunliffe scored both
1923 – Nunhead 0-6 Gillingham FAC5Q
Joe North smashed five, Tommy Hall added the other, in a big away triumph
1926 - Gillingham 2-0 Barking FAC1R
Frank Marshall and Fred Brown were the scorers
1928 - Gillingham 1-0 Luton Town D3S Att: 4,661
Arthur Dominy got the only goal
1934 - Gillingham 0-0 Brighton & HA D3S Att: 4,115
1945 – Gillingham 4-2 Ramsgate Athletic KL Att: 2,600
Vic Hole struck twice, R Price and C Clark also scored against the Rams
1951 – Plymouth Argyle 4-2 Gillingham D3S Att: 18,409
Dave Thomas hit both the Gills goals at Home Park
1956 - Gillingham 0-3 Plymouth Argyle D3S Att: 6,879
1962 – Darlington 2-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 2,904
1973 – Brentford 0-3 Gillingham D4 Att: 5,748
Two goals from Damien Richardson and one from Dave Galvin earned the points at Griffin Park
1979 - Gillingham 0-0 Swindon Town D3 Att: 8,029
1984 - Gillingham 4-0 Preston North End D3 Att: 4,055
Tony Cascarino, two from Dave Shearer and a Welsh own goal were ample against the Lilywhites
1990 – Chesterfield 1-1 Gillingham D4 Att: 3,468
Steve Lovell was the marksman at Saltergate
1992 – Leyton Orient 4-1 Gillingham AT1 Att: 1,667
The Gills consolation came from Trevor Aylott
2009 – Leyton Orient 3-1 Gillingham L1 Att: 3,183
Traffic chaos caused problems in East London – and a makeshift Gills were beaten by the O’s, Curtis Weston scoring.
2012 - Preston NE 2-0 Gillingham FAC2 Att: 5,271
The Gills were knocked out of the cup at Deepdale by goals from Jeffrey Monakana and Stuart Beavon
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BIRTHS...
1955- Paul Garner
The full back only made five appearances for the club while on loan, but his career nearly spanned two decades and spent most of his playing days at Sheffield United.
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DEATHS...
1934 - Sim Raleigh
The Hull City forward joined the Gills in the summer of 1932 and made his debut at Brighton & HA on the opening day of the 1932-33 campaign.
It was against the same opponents on this day in December 1934 that the forward suffered a clash of heads during the first-half and collapsed early in the second-half with a brain haemorrhage.
Despite surgeons trying to save his life at St Barts Hospital he was pronounced dead at 9.50pm.
He had scored 34 goals in 89 games for the Gills.
1969- Albert Collins
The centre-half arrived at Priestfield in May 1929 and made his debut at the start of the following season against Walsall.
After 178 games in which he netted four times, he moved to Canterbury Waverley.
Albert died in Gillingham on 1st December 1969.