ASHVILLE FOOTBALL CLUB - Key Persons

Gemma Simmons

Job Titles:

Member of the COMMITTEE
Youth Team Secretary / Bar Manager / Deputy Events Manager

Harry Reynolds

Job Titles:

Events Manager
Member of the COMMITTEE

John Dennett

Job Titles:

Founder & Club President
Member of the COMMITTEE

John Dennett Was Born on 23rd July 1924 in Bramham, Yorkshire but soon moved to Somerset with his parents as a child. John grew up in a town called Melksham and spent most of his youth there. Upon leaving school he was not one to sit around and with the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted to join the Royal Navy, even though he was only aged 17 this did not prevent him from joining the allied forces. John Dennett served on board LST 322 (a Landing Ship, Tank). Before D-Day both he and the ship had already participated in the landings at Sicily, Salerno and Anzio in Italy. They loaded tanks and Lorries in the Portsmouth area, and then waited in the Solent. The LST landed her troops on Sword Beach in the late morning of D-Day. After 6 June, LST 322 made another estimated 15 trips to pick up more Allied troops from Portsmouth, Southampton or Tilbury. They often carried wounded men on the return journey, and there was a temporary operating theatre set up on board. After the end of the war John moved to Wallasey where he met Joyce and they later married. Just four years after the end of the war came the birth of Ashville Football Club.