Hamilton Stokesbury

Hamilton Stokesbury
Personal information
Full name Albert Hamilton Stokesbury
Date of birth (1897-06-26)26 June 1897
Place of birth South Yarra, Victoria
Date of death 3 March 1968(1968-03-03) (aged 70)
Place of death South Melbourne, Victoria
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1915 Richmond 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Albert Hamilton Stokesbury (26 June 1897 – 3 March 1968) was an Australian rules footballer. He was born in South Yarra, Victoria.

Family

The son of Hamilton Towers Stokesberry (1877-), and Esther Stokesberry, née Tobias, Albert Hamilton Stokesberry was born in South Yarra, on 26 June 1897. He died in 1968.

Football

Stokesbury played one match during the 1915 season for Richmond in the Victorian Football League:[1][2]

"Hamilton was a centre-half-forward whose only club game was as a last minute replacement when Richmond were short of players. He was the son of long-time club trainer, Joe Stokesbury."[3][4]

Military career

Stokesbury enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in September 1915. Under the laws in force at the time, because he had not yet attained 21 years, he was considered a minor; and, therefore, required parental consent. In his enlistment papers a signature purporting to be his mother's agreed to his joining the AIF. In November 1915 the army was informed that the mother did not consent to his deployment. He was discharged in December 1915 after being absent without leave for several weeks.[5][6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "All Time Senior Players (Since 1908)". Richmond Football Club. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  2. ↑ St. Kilda (6.18) Beat Richmond (4.6), The Age, (Monday, 9 August 1915), p.10; St. Kilda's Superiority, The Argus, (Monday, 9 August 1915), p.11.
  3. ↑ Hogan (1996), p.220.
  4. ↑ Hogan had been misinformed; although Hamilton was related to the talented boxer, respected referee, and Richmond trainer, Joseph Allwood "Joe" Stokesberry (1873-1952), who married Nellie Lewis in 1894 (see, for example, Deaths: Stokesberry, The Argus, (Wednesday, 22 October 1952), p.12.), he was not his son, he was his nephew.
  5. ↑ "Albert Hamilton Stokesbury – Discovering Anzacs". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Greenberg, Tony (23 April 2009). "Salute to Tiger Anzacs". Richmond Football Club. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.

References

  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
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