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836:(6) Despite the fact that the "Maxfield" in question kicked a goal, the concentration of all of the British press reports was on the match as an "event", rather than a "contest", and given that no experienced Australian rules reporters were physically present at the match, and given that all of Brosnan's valuable later-published embellishments to those British press reports were taken from the correspondence he had received from those he had known directly as either a VFL coach, or as a VFL-centred football correspondent, it's not at all remarkable that, in contrast to, say, the
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given that the programme was intended to inform the spectators of the day, rather than be part of a significant military document), its multiplicity of typographical errors, its misidentification of particular individuals, its provision of mistaken details of military service at the time, its provision of incorrect names, its misinformation relating to the "TEAMS" associated with each particular individuals and, even, in some cases, insufficient information to allow any further identification of any kind at all.
763:) "Snowy" Maxfield was officially measured at 5ft 4¼in (163cm) (i.e., rather than Hogan's "5ft 7in"). Given that B.H. Mill's measured-at-enlistment height was 5ft 2½in (159cm), that there's nothing in either (1916) team's photograph, or the newsreel, to suggest that any other participant shared anything approaching Mill's size and diminutive height; therefore, it seems inevitable that the "Maxfield" in question, whomsoever he might have been, was most certainly not Richmond's "Snowy" Maxfield.
735:— and given that, although all of those photographed have been (often inaccurately) named, none have been precisely identified (name, rank, serial number, football club affiliation, etc.) in any associated material of the time, and, further, that none of those photographed seem to resemble "Snowy" Maxfield, as depicted in the caricature, it would seem that Richmond's "Snowy" Maxfield was not one of those who played on the day, and that the "Maxfield" in question was quite another individual.
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679:— i.e., the same group and battalion as A.J. Andrews , G.B. Bower , A. Jackson , and H.C. Kerley — has proved to be a very difficult task, especially given the widespread confusion in the details supplied in both the associated contemporary sources and the material that appears in the more modern, derivative literature.
833:(5) From (4), accepting that the "Maxfield" in question was not "Snowy" Maxfield, it clearly seems that whomsoever this "Maxfield" actually was, he was a very significant part of the match, having kicked one of his team's four goals (and, therefore, the goalkicker was very likely to be, in fact, a "Maxfield").
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686:, 1996, p.135 (with no photograph), who (at p.342) states he interviewed Maxfield's daughter, Betty Maureen Widdis (born 1930), née Maxfield, in the process of preparing Maxfield's entry — identify the individual in question as the (later) Richmond footballer, and (former) Bendigo City footballer
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