Horrie Brain

Horrie Brain
Personal information
Full name Horace Horton Brain
Date of birth (1885-11-17)17 November 1885
Place of birth Colebrook, Tasmania
Date of death 22 March 1966(1966-03-22) (aged 80)
Place of death Mount Nelson, Tasmania
Original team(s) Brisbane / North Hobart
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1907 St Kilda 11 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1907.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Horace Horton Brain (17 November 1885 – 22 March 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

He later served in World War I, serving mainly in France and suffering mustard gas poisoning in 1917.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
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