Ernest Gowenlock

Ernest Stanley Gowenlock (1890-1918), was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League - the major rugby league competition in Australia.

Ernie Gowenlock played for the Eastern Suburbs club in 1913, that season Easts' won the premiership - their third. A winger, Gowenlock is recognised as the 'Tricolours' 68th player.

War service

Gowenlock joined World War I with the 57th Battalion in France and died of wounds inflicted at Gueudecourt on 10 April 1918 aged 28.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Middleton, David (24 April 2010). "Footy stars taken on battlefield". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 January 2012.


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