Fred Fielding (footballer)

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]

Fred Fielding
Fielding in 1913
Personal information
Full name	Alfred Fielding
Date of birth	6 September 1889
Place of birth	Bendigo, Victoria
Date of death	8 August 1918(1918-08-08) (aged 28)
Place of death	Villers-Bretonneux, France
Original team(s)	South Bendigo (BFL)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1911	South Melbourne	01 0(0)
1913	Collingwood	17 (10)
Total		18 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Recruited from South Bendigo where he played in their 1909,^[2] 1910,^[3] 1911,^[4] and 1912 Bendigo Football Association premiership teams.

Family

The son of James Fielding (-1901),^[5] and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8][9]

See also

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