Fred Fielding (footballer)

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Fred Fielding (6 September 1889 – 8 August 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League.[1]

Family

The son of James Fielding (-1901),[2] and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,[3] he was born on 6 September 1889.

Military

He enlisted to serve in World War I using the name James Gleeson (his father's given name and his mother's maiden name) while in Perth in 1916.[4]

Death

He died in action on the first day of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final series of offensives by the Allies on the Western Front in World War I.[5][6]

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