| Frank Lamont | |
| Fullname: | Francis Carlyle Lamont |
| Birth Date: | 9 August 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Ballarat East, Victoria |
| Death Place: | Heidelberg, Victoria |
| Originalteam: | South Ballarat (BFL) |
| Height: | 164 cm |
| Statsend: | 1912 |
| Years1: | 1911–12 |
| Games Goals1: | 17 (9) |
Francis Carlyle Lamont (9 August 1886 – 22 July 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of John James Lamont (-1918),[2] [3] and Margaret Ann Lamont (1852-1911), née Carr,[4] [5] Francis Carlyle Lamont was born at Ballarat East, Victoria on 9 August 1886.
He married Sarah Amelia McDiarmid (1888-1972) in 1908.
Playing for South Ballarat Football Club in the Ballarat Football League, he was selected in a combined Ballarat League team in June 1910.[6]
Cleared from South Ballarat, he made his debut, as one of the seven new players for Fitzroy — i.e., Ernie Everett, Jack Furness, Cliff Hutton, Frank Lamont, Tom Moloughney, Danny Murphy, and Eric Watson[7] — against Melbourne on 29 April 1911: "The maroons have a star in Lamont, the boy from South Ballarat, playing winning [foot]ball throughout" (Melbourne Punch, 4 May 1911).[8]
On 5 June 1912, having played in the season's first two matches, he was cleared from Fitzroy back to South Ballarat.[9] In 1915 he was the team's vice-captain.[10] [11]
He enlisted in the First AIF on 5 July 1915.[12]
He left Australia on 23 November 1915 on the HMAT Ceramic (A40),[13] served overseas with the 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion, and returned to Australia on the SS Armagh which left Plymouth on 5 April 1919 and arrived in Melbourne on 18 May 1919.[14]
He was discharged on 27 July 1919.
He did at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 22 July 1963.[15]
