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Australian rules footballer
Australian rules footballer
Charlie Lilley
Full name
Charles Harold Lilley Date of birth
(1892-07-03 ) 3 July 1892 Place of birth
Armadale, Victoria Date of death
16 June 1982(1982-06-16) (aged 89) Place of death
Heidelberg, Victoria Original team(s)
Wangaratta/Elsternwick Height
176 cm (5 ft 9 in) Weight
74.4 kg (164 lb) Position(s)
Centre/Defence Years
Club
Games (Goals) 1913–15, 1919–25
Melbourne
132 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.
Sources:
AFL Tables ,
AustralianFootball.com
Charles Harold Lilley (3 July 1892 – 16 June 1982)
[1] was an
Australian rules footballer who played with
Melbourne in the
Victorian Football League (VFL).
[2]
Family
The son of Charles William Henry Lilley (1893-1918),
[3]
[4] and Mary Louisa Lilley (1866-1956), née Wright,
[5] Charles Harold Lilley was born at
Armadale, Victoria on 3 July 1892.
The Third Australian Divisional Team: 28 October 1916.
[6] Charlie Lilley is second from left, middle row.
In May 1919, an unidentified former Melbourne footballer, wrote to the football correspondent of The Argus as follows:
"In 1914 the Melbourne football team,
after its junction with the University , was a fine team, and succeeded in reaching the semi-finals. Out of this combination the following players enlisted and served at the front:— C. Lilley (seriously wounded),
J. Hassett ,
H. Tomkins (severely wounded),
J. Evans (seriously wounded),
W. Hendrie ,
R. L. Park ,
J. Doubleday (died),
A. Best ,
C. Burge (killed),
C. (viz., A.) Williamson (killed),
J. Brake ,
R. Lowell ,
E. Parsons (seriously wounded),
A. M. Pearce (killed),
F. Lugton (killed),
A. George ,
C. Armstrong ,
P. Rodriguez (killed),
J. Cannole (viz., Connole) ,
A. Fraser (seriously wounded),
T. Collins . These are all players of note, and in themselves would have formed a very fine side, but there is only one of them playing at the present time, viz., C. Lilley, who, as a matter of fact, takes the field under some disability owing to severe wounds which he received on service." — The Argus , 16 May 1919.
[7]
Military service
He served in the First AIF during World War One.
[8]
He played for the (winning) Third Australian Divisional team in the famous
"Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916 . A news film was taken at the match.
[9]
[10]
See also
Notes
^
"Charlie Lilley - Player Bio" . Australian Football. Retrieved 19 December 2014 .
^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.515.
^
Births: Lilley, The Argus , (Wednesday, 21 October 1863), p.4.
^
Deaths: Lilley, The Argus , (Saturday, 17 August 1918), p.11.
^
Deaths: Lilley, The Argus , (Wednesday, 11 January 1956), p.13.
^ Detail of
Organised by Australian Olympic swimmer Lieutenant Frank Beaurepaire, etc., in the collection of the Australian War Memorial (Accession number: H16689).
^
'Old Boy', "Football: Notes and Comments", The Argus , (Friday, 16 May 1919), p.8. See, also:
Armor Plated for Football, The Sporting Globe , (Saturday, 23 March 1940), p.8.
^
"Charles Harold Lilley | Discovering Anzacs | National Archives of Australia and Archives NZ" . 23 October 2013.
^ The original newsreel:
Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916) on
YouTube
^ The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel:
Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019) on
YouTube
References
Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm , Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.
Richardson, N. (2016), The Game of Their Lives , Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney.
ISBN
978-1-7435-3666-7
Photograph at
An All-Round Sport, The Winner , (Wednesday, 29 November 1916), p.8.
First World War Embarkation Roll: Gunner Charles Harold Lilley (19632), collection of the Australian War Memorial .
First World War Nominal Roll: Bombardier Charles Harold Lilley (19632), collection of the Australian War Memorial .
Bombardier Charles Harold Lilley (19632), National Archives of Australia .
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.) , Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-921496-32-5
External links