Facts:   - clubs: newcastle spartans united huddersfield town exeter city brentford sittingbourne blyth    - caps: 0 45 19 8    - position: forward    - years: 1913-1914 1914-1920 1920-1921 1921-1922 1922-1926 1926-1927    - death date: 21 november 1944      - birth date: 1892    - fullname: ralph shields    - name: ralph shields    - birth place: newbiggin , lanchester , county durham , england    - goals: 0 21 4 1   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ralph shields .
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ralph shields -lrb- born 1892 in newbiggin , county durham -rrb- was a professional footballer , who played for newcastle united , huddersfield town , exeter city and brentford .football career as a young man , ralph was a miner but he played for his local junior club newbiggin athletic , in the wansbeck league .in 1913 he was playing for choppington alliance when he was spotted by newcastle united and was transferred to them for a fee of # 40 on 30 october 1913 .ralph never played for the first eleven at newcastle united , when in may 1914 huddersfield town paid a # 100 fee for his signature .the following season , 1914-1915 , ralph was huddersfield town leading goal scorer with 16 goals in 28 appearances .as with many footballers during world war i , he signed up to serve and he did so with the royal field artillery .the season after world war i , 1919-1920 , he was part of the huddersfield town side which gained promotion from division 2 of the football league appearing 13 times and scoring 3 goals .in november 1920 , ralph was transferred to exeter city and played in 19 matches , scoring 4 goals , for the rest of the 1920-1921 season .during august 1921 , he was transferred to brentford to play in the 1921-1922 season , appearing in 8 matches and scoring just the 1 goal .this was to be his last season in the football league .he then appeared for sittingbourne in the kent league for a few seasons before moving back to the north east to play for blyth spartans in the north eastern league .personal life in october 1927 , ralph and his family emigrated to australia to build a new life .during his service with the australian army service corps in malaya , he was captured by the imperial japanese army and transferred to the sandakan prisoner of war camp in north borneo and interred as a pow .he died on 21 november 1944 and is buried at the labuan war cemetery in malaysia .