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Essendon Football Club (Association)

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 7 years, 5 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Organisations

 

 

FAREWELL TO FOOTBALLERS.

 

The committee of the Essendon (Association) Football Club entertained seven of their players who are going to the front at dinner at Ye Olderfleet Cafe on Saturday evening. The president (Councillor T F Lyons) was in the chair. The guests were T Clarke, T J Matthews, A Swift, S Latimer, A Linton, L Doig and  J M Stuart (vice president).   During the evening patriotic speeches were made by the chairman and Mr W Royle, and presentations were made to the soldiers by Mr G Johnston on behalf of the club. One of the early players to enlist was Charles Fincher who was killed in action, and as a mark of respect to his memory a place was left vacant with his name attached. An enlarged photograph of him was presented to the club by Mr C McBean, and this is to be hung in the clubroom. At the conclusion of the evening the soldiers were collected in the centre of the room, and the company, numbering about fifty, gathered round them in a circle with linked hands, and sang "Auld Lang Syne" with enthusiasm.

 

The Argus Monday 23 August 1915  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1551961 

 

Mentioned in this publication:

Other Essendon, The: a history of the Essendon Town Football Club, by Marc Fiddian. 

Raccoon Tail Books, Forest Hill, Vic: 2009.

 

Some identifications, from the book,  are not positive at this stage. 

 

Darcy E H     Pte AMC    376    Ernest
Ebbott G H     Pte    2671    Gilbert Henry
Elgar J T     Pte    4411    John
Fincher C*    Pte    472    Charles
Hardiman R V    Pte    1123    Robert Vincent
Raisbeck R L    Gunner    22957    Ralph Lumsden
Richards E L     Pte    19565    Edward Lloyd

 

 

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