Jack Armstrong (Australian footballer)

Jack Basil Armstrong (21 April 1899 – 21 January 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Jack Armstrong
Personal information
Full name John Basil Armstrong
Date of birth (1899-04-21)21 April 1899
Place of birth Kyneton, Victoria
Date of death 21 January 1942(1942-01-21) (aged 42)
Place of death Waverley, New South Wales
Original team(s) Sydney / Kyneton
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1925 St Kilda 14 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Prior to his football career Armstrong had enlisted on his eighteenth birthday to serve in World War I,[2] serving in England and France.[3]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "MOSTLY ABOUT PEOPLE". Kyneton Guardian (7, 916). Kyneton, Victoria. 24 April 1917. p. 2.
  3. Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.


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