A look back at some of the moments on this day in Gillingham FC's history
AUGUST 9
Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...
NEWS...
2001 - The Gills paid £100,000 for the versatile David Perpetuini from Watford
FIXTURES...
1962 - Ramsgate Athletic 0-5 Gillingham Fr
1966 - Wimbledon 2-0 Gillingham Fr
1967 - Romford 1-1 Gillingham Fr
Charle Crickmore was the scorer in Essex
1969 - Mansfield T 1 - 0 Gillingham D3 Att: 6,034
1975 - Gillingham 0-2 Charlton Athletic KCC Att: 3,962
The Gills were beaten at home in this Kent Challenge Cup tie
1976 - Folkestone Town 0-1 Gillingham Fr Att: 282
Mark Weatherly hit the winner at Cheriton Road
1977 - Sittingbourne 2-7 Gills XI Fr
The seven goal romp came courtesy of Terry Jolley, Pat Walker, Mark Weatherly (2), George Clark and Steve Bruce (2)
1979 - Chatham Town 2-1 Gills XI Fr
A Billy Hughes goal wasn't enough as ex-Gill Denis Housden and Charlie Donohue netted for the Chats
1980 - Chatham Town 4-3 Gills XI Fr
The Gills were still on the losing side despite Danny Westwood, Kevin Lloyd and David Young
1980 - Colchester Utd 0 - 2 Gillingham LC1 1L Att: 2,514
The Gills put themselves in the driving seat with Ken Price and Steve Bruce scoring at Layer Road
1986 - Gillingham 0-0 QPR Fr Att: 1,156
1988 - INF Vichy 0-1 Gillingham Fr
The French tour continued with another win, Mark Cooper scoring
1992 - Whitstable Town 3-1 Gills Youth Fr
1993 - Crawley Town 4-2 Gills XI Fr
Lee Williams and Paul Sykes were on target in a defeat at Town Mead
1997 - Gillingham 0 - 0 Preston N E D2 Att: 6,573
2003 - Sheff United 0 - 0 Gillingham D2 Att: 21,569
A man-of-the-match performance from keeper Jason Brown earned the Gills a point in blistering heat at Bramall Lane
2005 - Port Vale 0 - 0 Gillingham L1 Att: 4,931
2008 - Bournemouth 1 - 1 Gillingham L2 Att: 5,377
Gary Mulligan earned the Gills a deserved point with a 90th minute equaliser
2011 - Brighton & HA 1-0 Gillingham LC1 Att: 16,295
Only a 67th minute penalty from Ashley Barnes seperated the sides
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1969 - Ken Pound against Mansfield at Field Mill
1980 - Nigel Donn, Andy Ford and Peter Henderson at Colchester
1997 - Barry Ashby at home to Preston
2008 - Tyrone Berry, Mark McCammon and Curtis Weston at Bournemouth
2011 - Matt Fish away at Brighton
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BIRTHS...
1906 - Roy Bethell
Roy, a forward, was signed from Charlton Athletic in May 1929 and made his debut on the opening day of the following season.
His first goal came in a 5-0 home win against Newport County in April 1930 and went on to score 34 goals in 173 appearances
1909 - David Whitelaw
The Scottish keeper was signed from Southend United in July 1935 and made his debut at Reading two months later.
He was a regular over the next four season's making a total of 152 appearances.
1911 - Len Darling
Local lad Len was signed from Chatham Town in May 1932 and made his league bow at Brighton on the opening day of 1932-33.
He only played in the opening four months of the season playing 15 games.
The following summer he joined Brighton
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DEATH...
1990 - Robert John Robinson
Centre-half Robert, only appeared twice for the Gills in December 1929 having joined from the R.A.F, making his debut was at Newport County.
He died on 9 August 1990 in Havant.