Fred Fielding (footballer) explained
| Fred Fielding |
| Fullname: | Alfred Fielding |
| Birth Date: | 6 September 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Bendigo, Victoria |
| Death Place: | Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Originalteam: | South Bendigo (BFL) |
| Statsend: | 1913 |
| Years1: | 1911 |
| Games Goals1: | 1 (0) |
| Years2: | 1913 |
| Games Goals2: | 17 (10) |
| Games Goalstotal: | 18 (10) |
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]
Family
The son of James Fielding (-1901),[2] and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,[3] he was born on 6 September 1889.
Military
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
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
References
Notes and References
- Book: The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Holmesby. Russell. Main. Jim . 2014 . 10th . 978-1-921496-32-5 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria . 274.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/186118928/19061926 Funeral Notices, The Bendigo Independent, (Thursday, 17 October 1901), p.4.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204902989 Deaths: Fielding, The Age, 22 July 1936), p1.
- Web site: Fred Fielding – Discovering Anzacs . National Archives of Australia.
- Book: Cullen, Barbara . Harder than football : league players at war . 2015 . 149 . 2015 . Richmond, Victoria . Slattery Media Group . 978-0-992379-14-8.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/89099835 For Freedom's Cause: Deaths: Fielding, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 5 September 1918), p.3.
