Bob Flegg

Bob Flegg
Personal information
Full name	Robert Barnes Flegg
Date of birth	(1918-08-19)19 August 1918
Date of death	7 July 1944(1944-07-07) (aged 25)
Place of death	over Feuersbrunn, Grafenwörth, Austria
Original team(s)	Sandringham
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1941	St Kilda	18 (47)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robert Barnes "Bob" Flegg ((1918-08-19)19 August 1918 – (1944-07-07)7 July 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League. He scored 130 goals in a season for club Ormond, and kicked seven goals in his second match. He led St Kilda's goal scoring in 1941, and then joined the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II. He was killed when his plane was shot down over Feuersbrunn in the Grafenwörth district of Austria in 1944.

See also

• List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

References

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
• Bob Flegg's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=R&VeteranId=1013664