ANZAC spirit past PAFC players & officials who served

[snozulu]

I wanted to make a thread dedicated to all of the PAFC people who served our country. RIP to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and thank you to those still with us.


List of known Port Adelaide former servicemen who played for or were officials with the club


http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-04-21/port-adelaides-servicemen

World War One
Rank Name
PTE ALLINGHAM, Maurice William
PTE BADCOCK Frederick Charles Ernest
PTE BISCOMBE, Arthur John
CPL BOON, William Irving †
GNR BOWER, David Joseph
PTE BUNGEY, Howard Samuel Allmond
2/CPL CHALLINDER, Hugh Lear
DVR CHANNON, Arnold James
SGT CHAPLIN, Albert Reginald Victor †
PTE COFFEN, Robert John
PTE DAVIS Henry
CPL DAYMAN, Clement Gordan Lyle
A/CPL DEMPSTER, William Frederick
PTE DEWAR, Henry Bertram
L/Sgt DRUMMOND, William Roy Sharp M.M.
PTE FOGGO, Edward J
PTE GOSLING, Archibald James
PTE HEALY, Matthew
L/CPL HOARE, Horace Edgar
SGT HOWIE, Samuel William
S/SGT INKSTER, Gordon Bradford
PTE LATIMER, Clarence Alfred
GNR LEVY, Lawrence Henry
LCPL MARSHALL, William Charles
SGT MCDONALD, Thomas William D.C.M.
PTE MEADOWS, Frederick Arthur
PTE OATEY, Edward James
SGT ROBERTSON, John William
TPR ROSE, Edwin Burman
2nd Lieut SARD, Thomas Balfour Cooper
CPL STIDSON, Stedman Clarence Loy
PTE THEODORE, William Henry
SPR TOBIN, Harry Bishop
PTE TUBEL, Arthur
PTE TURNER, Arthur Ernest
2/LT WALSH, Douglas John M.C. †
CSM WATSON, Joseph Charles †
DVR WEEDEN, Edward Theodore
PTE WOOLLARD, John (Jack)
MAJ BENSON, (Dr) Alexander Vigors [Club Chairman]
CPL HAYTER, Charles [Club Official]
MAJ MORRIS, Edward Walter [Club Official]


World War Two
PTE ABBOTT, Howard John
LT ALLINGHAM, James Archibald
PTE ANDERSEN, Charles Anders
LCPL ANDERSEN, Charles Howard
SPR BAMPTON, Basil George
CPL BEER, Harold Alfred
LAC BROCK, Halcombe George †
LT CARMICHAEL, Maxwell George †
SGT CHAPMAN, George William Frank
PTE CHRISTENSEN, Clarence Jewell
PTE CLARK, Noel Edward Grangier
CPL COPPIN, John
PTE DANGERFIELD, Ivor Ronald
LAC DARLING, Lindsay Gordon
SIG DAWE, Ralph
PTE DAYMAN, Clarence Lyle
CPL DERMODY, John
SGT DORIAN, Edward Donald
SGT DOYLE, James William
PTE EDEN, Drozena Wilfred Bannister
EDWARDS, Bert
Sto FARR, James George
CPL FITZGERALD, Dennis
PTE GALLIFORD, Frederick George Leonard
PTE GATES, Laurie
Ab GERMEIN, Geoffrey Walter
PTE GIBAUT, Francis John
SGT GOWER, Arthur
PTE GRANT, Colin Spicer
L/CPL GREENING, Claude
Ab GREGG, Donald Malcolm
PTE GRIMM, Colin Morris
L/SGT HEATON, John Walter Ware
PTE HERBERT, Colin Motton
LAC JOHNSON, John Albert
LAC JOHNSON, Kenneth Alfred Gilbert
PTE JOHNSTON, Christopher Isaac †
KELLAWAY, Clyde
Ab KEOUGH, Peter Howard
PTE KRETSCHMER, Lyall Ralph
CPL LANDER, Robert Alford Chapman
LAC MANGAN, Louis Joseph
Sto II MARRETT, Peter Lancelot
LCPL MAYNE, Richard Healey
PTE McDONALD, Harold Albert
L/CPL McINNES, Norman William James
P-O McKIGGAN, Malcolm Eric †
PTE McLEAN, Allan Robert Charles
GNR McLEAN, Leslie Arthur George
L/CPL MILLS, Harold Charles
LAC MOORE, Brian Dudley
LAC NEAYLON, George Thomas
CPL OEHME, John Charles
PTE OWENS, William
Ab PENDER, Alexander
PTE PERRY, Harry
PTE PETERS, Frederick Gordon James
PTE PRIDEAUX, James Mitchell
CPL QUINN, George Urban †
PTE QUINN, John Michael
LT QUINN, Robert Berrima M.M.
Std ROBERTS, Llewllyn Edgar
Ab ROBERTSON, Herbert, Egar
PTE ROBINSON, Bertram
LT RUDD, Lloyd Kitchener †
LDG SEA SALVEMINI, Leonard
SGT / PTE SCHUMANN, Reginald Charles
CPL SKELLEY, John Dunstan
SLADE, Kenneth Lewis
PTE TEMBY, Gordon Westley
PTE TRIGG, William A
CPL TUNBRIDGE, Arthur Jack
PTE UTTING, Arthur Edwin
PTE WADE, John Samuel (Jack) †
PTE WALDRON, Hercules Xavier Norman
WO2 WHITE, John Campbell
PTE WIESE, Geoffrey Lancelot
SIG WILLIAMS, Foster Neil
PTE WOOLLARD John (Jack)
L/CPL AUBERT, Kenneth William Arthur [Trainer]
L/CPL DOWSETT, Archibald Harold [Trainer]
SGT NAISMITH, Henry James [Trainer]
L/CPL ADAIR, William Carl [Trainer]


Vietnam
L/CPL CHANT, Peter Allan †
PTE McGIE, Lindsay William
L/CPL QUINN, John Anthony

 

[PepeSilvia]

It really does fill me with pride to see my great grandfather's name on here.

 

[bringbackbucky]

Proud to see my pop's name up there.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I wanted to make a thread dedicated to all of the PAFC people who served our country. RIP to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and thank you to those still with us.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2014-04-24/port-adelaide-servicemen-in-war

The club welcomes any information from family members regarding ex players and officials who served with Australian forces abroad to contact the club here.

List of known Port Adelaide former servicemen who played for or were officials with the club

WWI
Arthur Biscombe
John Robertson
Samuel Howie
Clement Dayman
Thomas Sard
Arthur Channon
Gordon Inkster
Roy Drummond
William Theodore
Horace Hoare
Edward Foggo
Lawrence Levy
Maurice Allingham
Edward Oatey
David Bower
William Marshall
Charles Badcock
Clarence Latimer
Robert Coffen
William Boon †
Joseph Watson †
Albert Chaplin †

WWII
Robert B. Quinn
Harry Perry
Geoffrey Wiese
Archibald ‘Spiker’ Dowsett
Reginald Schumann
Frederick Peters
Leslie McLean
Richard Mayne
Dennis Fitzgerald
Francis Gibaut
John White
Harry Naismith
William Glennon
Ken Gardiner
Douglas Pudney
Gordon Dayman
Tom ‘Bull’ Perry
Arthur Utting
Norman McInnes
Kenneth Johnson
John Quinn
Drozena Eden
Harold Beer
John Johnson
Charles Andersen
Lincoln Burnell
Kenneth Slade
Richard Mayne
Dennis Fitzgerald
Bertram Robinson
Lloyd Rudd †
Maxwell Carmichael †
George Quinn †
Christopher Johnston †
Halcombe Brock †
John Wade †

Vietnam
Peter Chant †

† denotes killed in action or died while serving

That has been updated since 2014. Go to Club dropdown box on club's website. Then hit History and then hit Our Servicemen.

This is a list of A graders who served. A list of guys who played reserves or underage grades is being put together. I know that the club has been told that Alan John Cooper played U/17 and U/19 for the club and was Killed In Action in Vietnam in 1969 I believe. Matthew Agius is in charge of this project.

 

[snozulu]

That has been updated since 2014. Go to Club dropdown box on club's website. Then hit History and then hit Our Servicemen.

This is a list of A graders who served. A list of guys who played reserves or underage grades is being put together. I know that the club has been told that Alan John Cooper played U/17 and U/19 for the club and was Killed In Action in Vietnam in 1969 I believe. Matthew Agius is in charge of this project.

Thanks mate just added the updated list. I wish i could post the extra Names from the other grades, hopefully Mathew gets the list together soon.

 

[Adam Marrett23]

Always proud to see my Grandads name on this list and show my daughter. Glad I bought and framed the jumper they wore in the game last year against Hawthorn

 

[snozulu]

snozulu you should replace post 1 info with post 3 info and then delete post 3.

All Done, my first attempt at making a thread.

 

[tribey]

Does it count if your ex's grandpa is up there because

 

[DaTBird187]

PTE Howard Samuel Allmond BUNGEY I salute you Sir.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Embedded in this story is the Tim Ginever video about Bob Quinn that was shown before the Carlton game.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-04-25/anzac-remembering-bob-quinn


I knew the story about the doctor that operated on his leg in the desert visiting him at the interstate game at the MCG but didn't realize the game was a draw. Edit game was at Princess Park not MCG in 1946 and score was SA 18.15 to Vic 19.9.

 

[simmo_bc]

Great post snozulu.

Does anyone know if John Anthony Quinn is related to Bob?

 

[actiongreggars]

Embedded in this story is the Tim Ginever video about Bob Quinn that was shown before the Carlton game.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-04-25/anzac-remembering-bob-quinn


I knew the story about the doctor that operated on his leg in the desert visiting him at the interstate game at the MCG but didn't realize the game was a draw. Edit game was at Princess Park not MCG in 1946 and score was SA 18.15 to Vic 19.9.

Fantastic story told very well by Tim.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Great post snozulu.

Does anyone know if John Anthony Quinn is related to Bob?

I meet him in 2014 when I helped Lockhart Road and his 9RAR buddies get the Peter Chant medals put in a case as well as Bob and George Quinn's medals. I don't remember him saying he was related.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Great post snozulu.

Does anyone know if John Anthony Quinn is related to Bob?

Negative.

I have just seen via Facebook that Matthew Agius has added John Fletcher's name minus rank to the Vietnam War section. In 2014 we were trying to make contact with him. Lindsay McGie joined the 9RAR / BigFooty table at Before The Bounce at Adelaide Oval to see Peter Chant's and Bob & George Quinn's medals presented; John Quinn couldn't make it as he was on a road trip with his family. The two Johns and Lindsay served in earlier battalions in Vietnam, before 9RAR Nov. 1968 to Nov. 1969.
Anyone who has anything up to date on John Fletcher please advise.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I did a search by ANZAC and reckon this is the best thread to stick this in.

Remembering Albert Chaplin and all those who served

Port Adelaide this week pays tribute to all those who served and serve. The club remembers those from within its ranks who paid the ultimate sacrifice among the first ANZACS.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

ALBERT Chaplin took to the shade under one of the olive trees that marked the Zeitoun district of north Cairo, Egypt. It had been another demanding day at the British military camp.

At home, his Port Adelaide team-mates were preparing for their challenge final against Sturt, the battle for a changing of the guard in South Australian football during the 1915 league season - the reigning "Invincibles" empire at Alberton opposed to the new, young challengers from Unley.

"We are right into business here," wrote Chaplin, a goalscoring hero in the 1914 grand final that completed Port Adelaide's undefeated run in defending the 1913 South Australian football crown.

Now, Chaplin had swapped his football jumper in Port Adelaide's all-conquering army for the military uniform with the 12th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement. He was anticipating his call to action while many empires and crowns were reshaped and fell during World War I.


"We are doing plenty of hard training," continued Chaplin, "and expect to be sent forward at any moment now. Every man will welcome the order to move on, as we hear plenty of reports that prove we are wanted in the front ranks to do a bit of shooting ..."

Chaplin had just turned 23 when he penned his letters home that afternoon in September 1915. He was among the 47 Port Adelaide players and three officials who signed up for "King and county" during World War I.

Chaplin enlisted on May 11, 1915 after kicking two goals against the eager novices from Sturt at Unley Oval. He was now Corporal Albert Reginald Victor Chaplin, service number 2584, assigned to the Mitcham camp with the AIF.

He did not see out the 1915 football season, as did many of the Sturt footballers who were playing the challenge final against Port Adelaide one day and on a ship to war the next.

On August 26 at Outer Harbour, with Port Adelaide - as confirmed minor premiers - playing West Torrens in the last round of the home-and-away campaign, Chaplin boarded the HMS Morea, a well-travelled P&O ship reassigned as a convoy escort during the war. His absence from the Port Adelaide attack would be noted a week later in the surprise five-point loss to West Adelaide in a semi-final.

He found onboard the refitted ship a parcel from a devoted Port Adelaide supporter, Sammy Lunn. The magazines and papers enclosed were "I must tell you," wrote Chaplin, "appreciated ... we had plenty of time to read them".

His second - and most demanding - call to action came on June 5, 1916, a month after his promotion to lance sargeant. He was among the troops sent from Alexandria, Egypt on the Ivernia to Marseille, France as five divisions of the 52nd Battalion. He earned further promotion to Sergeant Chaplin on July 4, almost a year after 60 well-wishers had gathered at Jackman's Cafe at Hindley Street for his farewell party.

Chaplin certainly was one of the more popular sportsmen, in both football and cricket, at Port Adelaide. He had come to the Port Adelaide Football Club by destiny.

Born as the first child of three to James and Elizabeth Chaplin in Wangaratta on July 29, 1892, Chaplin grew up at Avenel in Victoria before his father died in 1898. The family moved to Naracoorte, then Menindie and finally to the south of Adelaide where he was educated at Goolwa. His apprenticeship with shipwright MacFarlane's at Birkenhead brought him to the heart of Port Adelaide with his taking residence at Prince Street, Alberton. He later turned to accountancy, working as a clerk at the Walkerville Brewing Company.

Chaplin made his league football debut in 1913, knowing little of defeat in his 25 senior matches with the Port Adelaide crew that wrote the club's longest successful run of 33 games without loss across 1913-1915.

Chaplin's first call to action was just weeks after he wrote home from the olive groves of Cairo of his journey to Egypt. He was sent to the Greek isle of Lemnos in October 1915. But he fell ill and was hospitalised, stopping his move to Gallipoli. By November, Chaplin was back in training in Egypt preparing for a different theatre of war.

Chaplin was in the trenches near Petillion, France by the end of May, 1916. He had seen the worst of war by August when his brother George joined him on the front line near Mouquet Farm at Pozieres.

As the sun rose on September 3, Chaplin was jumping out of the trenches to answer the command to take the farm from German troops. The next day the 52nd Battalion was hit hard, losing two companies as fighting units.

His comrades saw Chaplin fall to ground, grievously wounded during the advance that took the farm before it was soon lost again.

From a hospital bed in Birmingham, England, Sergeant John Marren told his superiors: "I knew Sergeant Chaplin very well ... he went out at about 5 o'clock in the morning, it was light. Our losses were serious. We took and held the farm until relieved next day. When the roll was called Sergeant Chaplin was missing. He never got across to the German line, that is quite certain. I also know several men in the 51st who were in the same attack, who were afterwards reported missing; but whilst they have been cleared up, no-one knows anything about Chaplin."

He was not among the prisoners taken by the Germans during the Battle of Somme during the second half of 1916. His body was never found. His name is among the 10,982 remembered on the Villers-Bretonnuex Memorial in the Somme - and those held with admiration and pride at the Port Adelaide Football Club.

A picture of Albert and George Chaplin in war uniform is seen at the Pool of Reflection at the Australian War Memorial in Sydney.

George Chaplin also was seriously wounded in the same campaign in France and was returned to Australia in 1917.

Albert Chaplin is among the three "Invincibles" who never returned home.

The war also claimed the lives of William Boon and Joseph Watson who did not make it back to Alberton where today the club still holds honour from their achievements as unbeaten footballers 110 years ago.

On Friday night at Adelaide Oval the Port Adelaide Football Club and its community remember Albert Chaplin and all those who served. Those who made the ultimate sacrifice will be honoured with pride and appreciation.

Lest We Forget.