Swans pay respects to ANZAC's

The Sydney Swans Football Club pays its respects to all those who were killed on active service as we commemorate ANZAC Day.

The Sydney Swans Football Club pays its respects to all those who were killed on active service as we commemorate ANZAC Day.

Find below a full list of South Melbourne VFL players killed while on active duty during the Boer War, World War 1 or World War 2.

World War 1

Norm	Bradford	STH MLB/SYD	1915	Pozieres, France	4/08/1916
Hughie	Callan	Ess, STH MLB	1903-05	Bapaume, France	5/02/1917
Charlie	Fincher	STH MLB/SYD	1913	Gallipoli, Turkey	25/04/1915
Jack	Freeman	STH MLB/SYD	1913-14	Flers, France	15/11/1916
Ed	Harrison	STH MLB/SYD	1906; 1908-09	Bapaume/Estaples, France	13/03/1917
Harold	Rippon	Melb, STH MLB/SYD	1898, 1903	DOW	16/01/1917
Bruce	Sloss	Ess, STH MLB/SYD	1907-14	Mouplines, Armenteries, France	4/01/1917
Claude	Thomas	STH MLB/SYD	1914-15	Hamel near Villers-Bretonneux, France	5/07/1918
Jack	Turnbull	STH MLB/SYD	1908	Australian Clearing Station, Ploogsteert	2/05/1917

World War 2

Jeff	Grieve	South Melb	1941	Montrose, Scotland	8/11/1944
Gordon	Hamilton	South Melb	1940	Drowned OAS rescuing a girl at Chelsea, Vic	23/02/1941
Alf	Hedge	South Melb	1937-38	Over Hamburg, Germany	4/05/1942
Norm	Le Brun	South Melb, Ess, Coll, Carl	1929-35	Near Danmap River near Balup, New Guinea	15/11/1944
Allan	Pearsall	South Melb	1941	Over English Channel	8/03/1944
Gordon	Sawley	South Melb	1941	OAS in training flight accident over Scotland	14/08/1942
Jack T.	Shelton	St Kilda, SMelb	1926-30	Tobruk	1/05/1941
Len A.	Smith	South Melb	1902	OAS at Heidelberg Hospital, Vic	29/07/1943
Len	Thomas	South Melb, N Melb, Haw	1927-40	Salamaua, New Guinea	17/08/1943
Jack	Wade	South Melb	1931-33	Lebanon	11/06/1941

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