Jack Price (Australian footballer)

Jack Price
Jack Price
Personal information
Full name	John Frederick Price
Date of birth	26 June 1901
Place of birth	Camberwell, Victoria
Date of death	27 June 1941 (aged 40)
Place of death	Syria
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1925	Hawthorn
1926–29	Camberwell (VFA)
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1929.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Frederick Price (26 June 1901 – 27 June 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family edit

The son of John Price, and Annie Price (née Hunt), John Frederick Price was born at Camberwell, Victoria on 26 June 1901.

He married Emslee Margaret Gladys Murdoch in 1921.

Originally playing with Carlton reserves, Price transferred to Hawthorn during the 1925 VFL season,^[2] making 10 appearances and scoring 2 goals.

He subsequently played with Camberwell in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) for four seasons.

Price enlisted and served in the second AIF in the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion (as did Max Wheeler).

He was killed in action in Syria on 27 June 1941.^[3] He has no known grave, and is commemorated at the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.^[4]

^ Holmesby & Main (2014).
^ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 May 1925. p. 5 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Roll of Honour:John Frederick Price". Australian War Memorial.
^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

World War Two Nominal Roll: Private John Frederick Price (VX28913), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Private John Frederick Price (VX28913), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.