Jack Price

Australian rules footballer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustralian rules footballer
PlacesAustralia
wasAthlete Football player Australian-rules footballer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth26 June 1901, Camberwell, City of Boroondara, Melbourne, Australia
Death27 June 1941Syria (aged 40 years)
Star signCancer
Sports Teams
Hawthorn Football Club
The details

Biography

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

Family

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.

Football

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

Military service

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

Death

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

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