Jack_Freeman_(Australian_rules_footballer)
Jack Freeman (Australian rules footballer)
Australian rules footballer
Jack Freeman (15 November 1891 – 15 November 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.
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Jack Freeman | |||
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Full name | Jack Freeman | ||
Date of birth | (1891-11-15)15 November 1891 | ||
Place of birth | Bairnsdale, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 15 November 1916(1916-11-15) (aged 25) | ||
Place of death | Rouen, France | ||
Original team(s) | Rose of Northcote | ||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1913–14 | South Melbourne | 22 (39) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1914. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
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The son of Frederick and Margaret Freeman, née McGuiness, he was born on 15 November 1891. He died of wounds received on active service on 15 November 1916.[1]
Top goalscorer for South Melbourne in 1914.
He enlisted in the First AIF in July 1915.[2][3] He was badly wounded in France; and, after having both legs amputated, he died in a military hospital on his 25th birthday.[4][5]
- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
- Gallant Australians: One of Australia's Heroes, The Preston Leader, (Saturday, 20 January 1917), p.3.
- Roll of Honour: Sapper Jack Freeman (2477).
- World War I Service Record: Jack Freeman (2477), National Archives of Australia.
- World War I Nominal Roll: Sapper Jack Freeman (2477), Australian War Museum.
- World War I Embarkation Roll: Sapper Jack Freeman (2477), Australian War Museum.
- Jack Freeman's playing statistics from AFL Tables
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