Claude Bailey

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 Glenelg Career Highlights
  • GFC League Player Number: 187
  • GFC League Debut: Round 12, 1935
  • Glenelg 1935 – 1941
    • 52 games
    • 49 goals



Biographical

  • Born: 13 September 1914
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  • Previous Club:
  • GFC League Debut: 1935

Guernsey Number:

Walter Claude Bailey bailey first played for Glenelg in 1935. He played chiefly as a forward and provided backup in the rucks.

Gnr. Claude Bailey enlisted in the Army 16 June 1941 and died a prisoner of war on 24 June 1944. Gnr. Bailey was captured in Timor, and after imprisonment in Java for nearly two and a half years,was being transferred to a prison camp in Japan when the boat was torpedoed. Official confirmation of his death took nearly 18 months to reach his family.


References

1. Pride of the Bay

2. Trove: Southern Cross 7/12/45 - Death of Gnr Bailey

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