Jack Doubleday
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Jack Lindsay Doubleday | ||
Date of birth | 28 May 1890 | ||
Place of birth | Prahran, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 30 October 1918 | (aged 28)||
Place of death | Indian Ocean | ||
Original team(s) | Wesley College | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1912–14 | University | 36 (17) | |
1915 | Melbourne | 17 | (4)|
Total | 53 (21) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Jack Lindsay Doubleday (28 May 1890 – 30 October 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.[1]
A dentist, Doubleday enrolled in the Australian Army Medical Corps, but he died of influenza on his way to the Western Front in 1918, and was buried at sea.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ^ "Roll of Honour – Jack Lindsay Doubleday". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
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Categories:
- 1890 births
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
- University Football Club players
- Melbourne Football Club players
- People who died at sea
- Burials at sea
- 1918 deaths
- Australian military personnel killed in World War I
- Australian dentists
- People educated at Wesley College (Victoria)
- Australian rules biography, 1890s birth stubs