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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• GFC League Debut: 1935

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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