Jack Doubleday

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| fullname = Jack Lindsay Doubleday

| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|5|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Prahran, Victoria

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|10|30|1890|5|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Indian Ocean

| originalteam = Wesley College

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| statsend = 1915

| years1 = 1912–14

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| games_goals1 = 36 (17)

| years2 = 1915

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| games_goals2 = 17 {{0}}(4)

| games_goalstotal = 53 (21)

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Jack Lindsay Doubleday (28 May 1890 – 30 October 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.Holmesby & Main (2014), p.234.

Family

The son of John Doubleday (1837–1907), and Elizabeth Josephine Doubleday (1863–1943), née Naeser,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11334050 Deaths: Doubleday, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 April 1943), p.2.] Jack Lindsay Doubleday was born at Prahran, Victoria on 28 May 1890.

Education

He was educated at All Saints' Grammar School, in East St Kilda,The school operated on the corner of Dandenong Road and Chapel Street from 1871 to 1937 (see [http://skhs.org.au/SKHSchurches/all_saints_anglican_church.htm All Saints' Grammar School: All Saints’ Anglican Church, The Spirit of St Kilda].) and at Wesley College, Melbourne (from 1906 to 1910).

He studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, and graduated Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc) on 20 December 1916.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1615807 University of Melbourne: Conferring of Degrees, The Argus, (Thursday, 21 December 1916), p.9.]

Football

=University (VFL)=

[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88704327 Inter-University Football: Melbourne University Team, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 17 August 1912), p.29.]

=Melbourne (VFL)=

The university team withdrew from the VFL competition prior to the 1915 season; and, along with his team-mates Jack Brake, Claude Bryan, Dick Gibbs, Roy Park, and Percy Rodriguez, Doubleday was given a clearance to transfer from University to Melbourne.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242362999 Melbourne, The Herald, (Friday, 16 April 1915), p.3.]

Football

In May 1919, an unidentified former Melbourne footballer, wrote to the football correspondent of The Argus as follows:

::"In 1914 the Melbourne football team, after its junction with the University, was a fine team, and succeeded in reaching the semi-finals.
Out of this combination the following players enlisted and served at the front:—
C. Lilley (seriously wounded), J. Hassett, H. Tomkins (severely wounded), J. Evans (seriously wounded), W. Hendrie, R. L. Park, J. Doubleday (died), A. Best, C. Burge (killed), C. (viz., A.) Williamson (killed), J. Brake, R. Lowell, E. Parsons (seriously wounded), A. M. Pearce (killed), F. Lugton (killed), A. George, C. Armstrong, P. Rodriguez (killed), J. Cannole (viz., Connole), A. Fraser (seriously wounded), T. Collins.
These are all players of note, and in themselves would have formed a very fine side, but there is only one of them playing at the present time, viz., C. Lilley, who, as a matter of fact, takes the field under some disability owing to severe wounds which he received on service." – The Argus, 16 May 1919.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1468346 'Old Boy', "Football: Notes and Comments", The Argus, (Friday, 16 May 1919), p.8.]

Military service

A qualified dentist, Doubleday enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps on 9 October 1918, and left Australia on 16 October 1918, to serve overseas in the Australian Dental Corps.

Death

He died of spinal meningitis on 30 October 1918, on his way to the Western Front.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27594574 On Shipboard and in Egypt: A Nurse's Letter, The West Australian, (Thursday, 6 February 1919), p.5.]

He was buried at sea, and is commemorated at the Chatby Memorial in the Shatby district of eastern Alexandria, in Egypt.Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Footnotes

References

Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-921496-32-5}}.
Main, J. & Allen, D., "Doubleday, Jack", pp. 55–56 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. {{ISBN|1-74095-010-0}}
[https://www.wesleycollege.edu.au/about-wesley/our-history/roll-of-honour/jack-lindsay-doubleday Wesley College: Roll of Honour: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday.]
[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=uc1.%24b744566;orient=0;size=100;seq=46;num=2;attachment=0 Roll of Service Overseas 1914–1918: Roll of the Fallen: Doubleday, Jack Lindsay 1911, The University of Melbourne Record of Active Service of Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates, Officers and Servants in the European War, 1914–1918, University of Melbourne, (Melbourne), p.12.]
[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067598/large/5373496.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday], collection of the Australian War Memorial.
[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068897/large/5357673.JPG First World War Nominal Roll: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday], collection of the Australian War Memorial.
[https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=3516431&D=D First World War Service Record: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday], collection of the National Archives of Australia.
[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068864/document/5562786.PDF Roll of Honour Circular: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday], collection of the Australian War Memorial.
[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1725329 Australian War Memorial: Roll of Honour: Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday.]
[https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1438551/doubleday,-jack-lindsay Lieutenant Jack Lindsay Doubleday], Commonwealth War Graves Commission.