John Frederick Price (26 June 1901 – 27 June 1941) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Family
The son of John Price, and Annie Price (née Hunt), John Frederick Price was born at
Camberwell, Victoria
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on 26 June 1901.
He married Emslee Margaret Gladys Murdoch in 1921.
Football
Originally playing with
Carlton reserves, Price transferred to Hawthorn during the
1925 VFL season
The 1925 VFL season was the 29th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 2 May to 10 October, comprising a 17-match ...
, making 10 appearances and scoring 2 goals.
He subsequently played with
Camberwell
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Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles' Church, Camberwell, St Giles ...
in the
Victorian Football Association
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(VFA) for four seasons.
Military service
Price enlisted and served in the
second AIF in the
2/2nd Pioneer Battalion (as did
Max Wheeler).
Death
He was killed in action in Syria on 27 June 1941. He has no known grave, and is commemorated at the
Alamein Memorial in Egypt.
[Commonwealth War Graves Commission.]
See also
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Syria–Lebanon Campaign
The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon (then controlled by Vichy France, a vassal state of Nazi Germany) in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War.
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Notes
References
World War Two Nominal Roll: Private John Frederick Price (VX28913) ''Department of Veterans' Affairs''.
Private John Frederick Price (VX28913) ''Commonwealth War Graves Commission''.
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External links
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Jack Price's playing statisticsfrom The VFA Project
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1901 births
1941 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Hawthorn Football Club players
Camberwell Football Club players
Australian Army soldiers
Australian military personnel killed in World War II
Australian Army personnel of World War II
Military personnel from Melbourne
People from Camberwell, Victoria
20th-century Australian sportsmen