Dick Welch | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Charles William Welch | ||
Date of birth | 30 January 1913 | ||
Place of birth | Nagambie, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 17 October 2002 | (aged 89)||
Place of death | Heathcote, Victoria | ||
Original team(s) | Nagambie | ||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1936–38 | Essendon | 20 (4) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
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]
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.
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]
He played for several seasons for the Nagambie Football Club in the Waranga-North-Eastern Association.[7]
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]
Omitted from Essendon's senior list in April 1939,[13] he was cleared from Essendon to Coburg.[14][15][16][17]
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]
He died at Heathcote Health, Heathcote, Victoria, on 17 October 2002.[22]