Ernest Albert Bailes (18 June 1888 – 16 March 1964) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er. He played with
Collingwood in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL);
and, having been dropped by Collingwood, he transferred mid-season to the Brighton Football Club in the VFA, where he played from 1909 to 1915.
Family
Born on 9 August, 1883, the son of
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes (23 July 1849 – 15 January 1928) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1886 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1907. He also served as mayor of Bendigo from 1883 to 1884.
Early l ...
, who was the
Mayor of Sandhurst, (1883-1884), and
member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1896-1894, 1897-1907), and the younger brother of ex-Fitzroy footballer
Barclay "Tich" Bailes.
Military service
He enlisted in the First AIF in February 1916.
World War I Service Record: Ernest Albert Bailes (4662).
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Notes
External links
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Ernie Bailes's profile
at Collingwood Forever
1888 births
1964 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Bendigo
Collingwood Football Club players
Australian military personnel of World War I
Military personnel from Victoria (Australia)
Australian people of English descent
Brighton Football Club players
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