610:"The 2/24th Infantry Battalion was raised at Wangaratta, Victoria, in July 1940. Initially part of 7th Division, the 2/24th would become famous as part of the 9th Division, particularly for actions during the Siege of Tobruk and the Second Battle of El Alamein. Service in North Africa would be followed by action against the Japanese in the Pacific, notably at Tarakan and Wareo" (
560:(who also worked as the caretaker at the Corio Oval), by members of the St Kilda team, and the account of the spectators' response to Rayson's injury (which included broken ribs), specifically directed at "Shelton", refers exclusively to John Frederick "Jack" Shelton, and not "this" Shelton (as Main & Allen and Feldman & Holmesby mistakenly state): see
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Melbourne on 11 June 1930. He played his first match for South Melbourne, as a back-pocket ruckman, against Hawthorn on 14 June 1930 (round seven). South Melbourne thrashed Hawthorn 17.11 (119) to 9.10 (64), in its first win for the 1930 season.
347:, on 4 June 1928. Shelton played very well in his first game back in the VFL, and St Kilda won by 9 points. He played eleven senior matches for St Kilda in 1928 (rounds 8 to 18 inclusive) and six in 1929, with his last match against Richmond, at the
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on 13 September 1930. He was one of the best players in a team that soundly beat North
Melbourne 15.19 (109) to 4.14 (38), having kicked 9.6 (60) to 1.1 (7) in the last quarter.
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760:: the"St Kilda Team" in the photograph that appears on the same page is the team (minus Jack Shelton), that lost to Footscray by one point two days earlier.
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434:(they both enlisted on 19 September 1914, with Leslie producing letters of permission from his mother and father).
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Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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Jack married Winifred "Freda" Emma Planck Gadd (1905–1988) on 26 March 1932. The cousin of Melbourne footballer
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Schwartz, L., "Such is life for the legend that is Ned Kelly",
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proved himself a courageous soldier and was the first of our
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131:180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
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