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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.

Recruited from South Bendigo where he played in their 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1912 Bendigo Football Association premiership teams.

Family

The son of James Fielding (-1901), and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson, 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.

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.

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