Fred Fielding | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Alfred Fielding | ||
Date of birth | 6 September 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Bendigo, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 8 August 1918 | (aged 28)||
Place of death | Villers-Bretonneux, France | ||
Original team(s) | South Bendigo (BFL) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1911 | South Melbourne | 1 (0) | |
1913 | Collingwood | 17 (10) | |
Total | 18 (10) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
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]
The son of James Fielding (-1901),[2] and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,[3] he was born on 6 September 1889.
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]
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]