Jack Borthwick

Personal life Borthwick's younger brother Watty also became a footballer and his son Bill worked as a trainer for Everton. Borthwick served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War and suffered a gunshot wound to the head at Delville Wood in 1916. He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye". Borthwick was discharged on 12 April 1917.

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