Claude Bailey

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*GFC League Player Number:  187
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*GFC League Debut:  Round 12, 1935
*Glenelg [[1935]] – [[1941]]
*Glenelg [[1935]] – [[1941]]
** 52  games  
** 52  games  
**  49 goals  
**  49 goals  
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== Biographical ==
== Biographical ==
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*Born: 13 September 1914
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*Previous Club:  
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*GFC League Debut: 1935
*GFC League Debut: 1935
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== Career ==
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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.
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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.
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1. Pride of the Bay
1. Pride of the Bay
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2. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167786491 Trove: Southern Cross 7/12/45 - Death of Gnr Bailey]
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[[Category:Players|Bailey, Claude]]
[[Category:Players|Bailey, Claude]]

Current revision as of 12:02, 19 December 2020

 Glenelg Career Highlights
  • GFC League Player Number: 187
  • GFC League Debut: Round 12, 1935
  • Glenelg 19351941
    • 52 games
    • 49 goals



Biographical

  • Born: 13 September 1914
  • Height:
  • Weight:


  • 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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