Dick Welch Explained

Dick Welch
Fullname:	Charles William Welch
Birth Date:	30 January 1913
Birth Place:	Nagambie, Victoria
Death Place:	Heathcote, Victoria
Originalteam:	Nagambie
Height:	182 cm
Weight:	83 kg
Statsend:	1938
Years1:	1936–38
Games Goals1:	20 (4)

Charles William "Dick" Welch (30 January 1913 – 17 October 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of Charles James Welch (1880-1936),^{[2] [3] [4]} and Ellen Maud Welch (1887-1975), née Sullivan, Charles William Welch was born at Nagambie, Victoria on 30 January 1913.

He married Ivy Estelle Heaven (1919-2003) at Ascot Vale, Victoria on 7 September 1940. They had one child; a daughter, Julie-Ann.

Rowing

An outstanding rower, he was one of the six Nagambie oarsmen that represented Victoria in the 1934 King's Cup in Hobart.^[5] He also represented Victoria in the 1935 King's Cup in Sydney.^[6]

Football

Nagambie (WNEA)

He played for several seasons for the Nagambie Football Club in the Waranga-North-Eastern Association.^[7]

Essendon (VFL)

On 1 May 1936 he was granted a clearance from Nagambie to Essendon.^{[8] [9]} He was a regular member of the Seconds; and played nine senior games in 1936 (his first was against South Melbourne on 30 May 1936),^[10] ten senior games in 1937, one senior game in 1938 (his last was against Collingwood on 30 April 1938),^[11] and was part of the Essendon Seconds team that were defeated by a single point by a combined Mildura District Football League team, at Mildura on 24 September 1938.^[12]

Coburg (VFA)

Omitted from Essendon's senior list in April 1939,^[13] he was cleared from Essendon to Coburg.^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}

Military service

Having enlisting in the Second AIF in July 1940,^{[18] [19]} he served in the Middle East and in New Guinea during World War II.^{[20] [21]}

Death

He died at Heathcote Health, Heathcote, Victoria, on 17 October 2002.^[22]

References

• Web site: World War II Nominal Roll: Lieutenant Charles William Welch (VX43610) . Department of Veterans' Affairs.
• World War II Service Record: Lieutenant Charles William Welch (VX43610), National Archives of Australia
• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing.
• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.

External links

• • • "(Welch, Coburg, 1939)", The VFA Project.

Notes and References

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.935.
2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11915246 Deaths: Welch, The Argus, (Wednesday, 16 September 1936), p.1.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64729650 Fatal Accident, Alexandra and Yea Standard, (Friday, 25 September 1936), p.3.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223873094 Countru Oarsman's Tragic Death, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 26 September 1936), p.73.
5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136125341 'Derwent', "Six Nagambie Men In Vic. King's Cup Crew", The Referee, (Thursday, 22 March 1934), p.11.
6. [Hector de Lacy|de Lacy, H.A.]
7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224563357 Nagambie (Team Photograph), The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 4 August 1934), p.37.
8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11031864 Taylor, Percy, "League Football Today", The Argus, (Saturday, 2 May 1936), p.21.
9. Maplestone (1996), pp.408, 414, 477-479.
10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204832673 The Teams: South Melbourne v. Essendon, The Age, (Friday, 29 May 1936), p.7.
11. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11178712 Essendon Defence Moves, The Argus, (Friday, 29 April 1938), p.18.
12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article268768690 Mildura's Splendid Display: Essendon Defeated, Sunraysia Daily, (Monday, 26 September 1938), p.2.
13. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205990081 "From Forward's Notebook", The Age, (Tuesday, 11 April 1939), p.8.
14. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243350991 Barclay, Bert, "Cleared to V.F.A. Clubs", The (Melbourne) Herald, Monday, 17 April 1939), p.24.
15. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12119259 Coburg, The Argus, (Wednesday, 19 April 1939), p.12.
16. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189147479 Evans, George, "Coburg All The Way", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 22 April 1939), p.3.
17. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205621383 Hard and Fast, The Age, (Monday, 1 May 1939), p.16.
18. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article246481704 Drawing on New Class, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Tuesday, 2 July 1940), p.3.
19. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11309166 Reunion after Adventure, The Argus, (Wednesday, 3 July 1940), p.5.
20. World War II Nominal Roll.
21. World War II Military Record.
22. Web site: WELCH, Charles William . Herald Sun.