Tommy Hughes

Tommy Hughes

Australian rules footballer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustralian rules footballer
PlacesAustralia
wasAthlete Football player Australian-rules footballer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth25 December 1886, Launceston, Australia
Death19 August 1981Northcote, Australia (aged 94 years)
Star signCapricorn
Sports Teams
Carlton Football Club
The details

Biography

Thomas Edward "Tommy" Hughes (25 December 1886 – 19 August 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL), usually playing on the wing or in defence.

Military Service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 27 November 1915.

Some mistaken sources, confusing Hughes with one of two other AIF men of the same name who were killed in action, claim that he had been killed in the Somme during World War I; when, in fact, he returned to Australia on 23 June 1919.

Other mistaken sources based their statements on the obituary of "Private Tom Hughes" that appeared in The Winner of 6 June 1917, without having seen the retraction notice published a week later, that clearly stated that the deceased "Private Tom Hughes" was not one and the same as the "Gunner Tom Hughes" who once played for Carlton.

Death

He died on 19 August 1981.

Footnotes

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