Fred Fielding (footballer)

Fred Fielding (6 September 1889 – 8 August 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League.[1]

Fred Fielding
Fielding in 1913
Personal information
Full name Alfred Fielding
Date of birth 6 September 1889
Place of birth Bendigo, Victoria
Date of death 8 August 1918(1918-08-08) (aged 28)
Place of death Villers-Bretonneux, France
Original team(s) South Bendigo (BFL)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911 South Melbourne 01 0(0)
1913 Collingwood 17 (10)
Total 18 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

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The son of James Fielding (-1901),[2] and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,[3] he was born on 6 September 1889.

Military

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He enlisted to serve in World War I using the name James Gleeson (his father's given name and his mother's maiden name) while in Perth in 1916.[4]

Death

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He died in action on the first day of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final series of offensives by the Allies on the Western Front in World War I.[5][6]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Funeral Notices, The Bendigo Independent, (Thursday, 17 October 1901), p.4.
  3. ^ Deaths: Fielding, The Age, 22 July 1936), p1.
  4. ^ "Fred Fielding – Discovering Anzacs". National Archives of Australia.
  5. ^ Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
  6. ^ For Freedom's Cause: Deaths: Fielding, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 5 September 1918), p.3.

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