Jack Doubleday

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Jack Doubleday
Personal information
Full nameJack Lindsay Doubleday
Date of birth(1890-05-28)28 May 1890
Date of death30 October 1918(1918-10-30) (aged 28)
Place of deathIndian Ocean
Original teamWesley College
Club information
Current clubRetired
NumberUni – 1912: 9, 1913: 22
Melb – 27
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1912–14
1915
Total
University
Melbourne
36 (17)
7 (4)
43 (21)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1915 season.

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. 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.[1]

See also

  • List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

Footnotes

  1. "Roll of Honour – Jack Lindsay Doubleday". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

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