Patrick O'Brien (footballer, born 1884)

Patrick Aloysius O’Brien was a Scottish amateur football centre forward who appeared in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.

Personal life

O'Brien had a wife, four sons and two daughters. He served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and later became a casualty surgeon for the Glasgow Police. In May 1941, during the Second World War, O'Brien was called to examine Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, who had had landed near Eaglesham on an attempted peace mission.