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27th Battalion Football Team

27th Battalion Football Team

Members of the 27th Battalion football team which defeated the 10th Battalion team, 10 goals 5 to 4 goals 5, on Adelaide Oval in front of a crowd of 35,000 spectators on 19 July 1919 as part of Peace Day celebrations. The 'Chronicle' lists the players in the team and the following have been identified by a researcher as follows: Back row (from left): unknown, H.J Harden, C.C. Eldridge, B. Donnell [Albert George?], unknown, F. S. Nelson, S.S. Woods, A.W. Colman, W.R.G Colman, unknown. Middle row (from left): C.S. Kneebone, unknown, [Captain P.G. Bice], C.L. Dayman (captain), R.G. Horwood (vice-captain), [Major W.S. Hosking], P.F. Frost, unknown. Front row (from left): P. Crowley, O.L. Ross, unknown, unknown, A.S. Ebbs, unknown. Four team members identified in the newspaper article but not yet identified in the photo are: G. Gale, P.M. Thompson, H. Thomas and G. Vaughan. [See also duplicate at PRG 280/1/29/205.]

27th Battalion Football Team

27th Battalion Football Team

Members of the 27th Battalion football team which defeated the 10th Battalion team, 10 goals 5 to 4 goals 5, on Adelaide Oval in front of a crowd of 35,000 spectators on 19 July 1919 as part of Peace Day celebrations. The 'Chronicle' lists the players in the team and the following have been identified by a researcher as follows: Back row (from left): unknown, H.J Harden, C.C. Eldridge, B. Donnell [Albert George?], unknown, F. S. Nelson, S.S. Woods, A.W. Colman, W.R.G Colman, unknown. Middle row (from left): C.S. Kneebone, unknown, [Captain P.G. Bice], C.L. Dayman (captain), R.G. Horwood (vice-captain), [Major W.S. Hosking], P.F. Frost, unknown. Front row (from left): P. Crowley, O.L. Ross, unknown, unknown, A.S. Ebbs, unknown. Four team members identified in the newspaper article but not yet identified in the photo are: G. Gale, P.M. Thompson, H. Thomas and G. Vaughan. [See also duplicate at PRG 280/1/20/162.]

Members of the 27th Battalion football team

Members of the 27th Battalion football team

A group photograph of members of the 27th Battalion football team in South Australia. The following individuals have been identified: [back row] Roy Townley (5th from left); Alfred McLaren Moore (Norwood player, 7th from left); Ronald Gilbert Horwood (4th from right), W. R. G. Colman (third from right), and Stanley Stuart Woods (far right). Middle row: Percy Gordon Bice (2nd from left); W.G. Dayman (Norwood player,4th from left); Gordon George Garlet Solly (5th from left, President of the team); Clarence Everard 'Nip' Pellew (test cricketer, 6th from left. . Clearance problems with Roseworthy Agricultural College, where Pellew was studying and playing football, saw him play only one match for North Adelaide which was against Sturt, 12 July 1920); and Wilfred Stanley Hosking (7th from left). Front row: Percy Crowley is 4th from left.