Career
Although frequently a reserve throughout his career Bacon managed an impressive strike rate with 71 league goals in 128 games. After playing his youth football with New Tupton Ivanhoe Bacon signed for Chesterfield but failed to make an appearance at the club before a move to Derby County. Bacon failed to gain a first-team place at Derby and an equally unproductive spell at Manchester City followed before he joined Reading.
Bacon returned to Chesterfield for the 1932-1933 season, although he managed only six goals in 30 league appearances.
Following this he enjoyed a productive spell at Coventry City, where his former Derby team-mate Harry Storer, Junior. was the manager. After Storer added Bacon to his squad in 1933 the striker promptly scored 14 goals over four games, all in the space of 15 days.
Despite this he found opportunities at Highfield Road limited and dropped out of the Football League in 1935 to finish his career at Burton Town. During the Second World War Bacon served as a fire-fighter in Derby where he was killed, aged 37, in Hawthorn Street during an air-raid on 27 July 1942.
He is commemorated on the memorial in the Chesterfield Football Club Memorial Garden at the Chesterfield Proact Stadium based on his death while serving in uniform.