Joe Shelley

Joseph Eustace Shelley (8 September 1892 – 23 June 1966)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Joe Shelley
Personal information
Full name Joseph Eustace Shelley
Date of birth (1892-09-08)8 September 1892
Place of birth Caulfield, Victoria
Date of death 23 June 1966(1966-06-23) (aged 73)
Place of death Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) Geelong Grammar /
Melbourne Grammar
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911–1914 University 23 (11)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1914.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Edgar Shelley (1861-1949), and Blanche Shelley (1867-1960), née Rouse, Joseph Eustace Shelley was born at Caulfield, Victoria on 8 September 1892.

Education

Educated at Geelong Grammar School and at Melbourne Grammar School.

As a resident at Ormond College he attended the University of Melbourne.

He graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) on 17 April 1915;[3] and, during his time at the university he was awarded a "double blue" in cricket and football.[4]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 7 July 1916, and left Sydney on 8 July 1916 (on the RMS Mongolia) to serve overseas in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC).

He was discharged for the AIF in England (effective date 26 December 1919); and, rather than being repatriated to Australia, he independently went to Jerusalem, where his parents were living, and where he intended to practise medicine.[5]

6 April 1925

While in Victoria, on holiday from his residence in Jerusalem, Shelley was staying at "Ferndale", the property of James Griffiths, of Griffiths Brothers' Tea, at Bayswater, Victoria. He was the sole survivor of an accident in which the wagonette, driven by Griffiths (on the way to Bayswater Station to meet Arthur Henry Harris, the manager of "Ferndale"), was hit by a train.

Three of the five occupants — James Griffiths,[6][7] Elizabeth Morton,[8] and Janet Emily Harris (Harris's daughter)[9][10] — were killed immediately, and the fourth — Emily Griffiths (James Griffiths' wife)[11][12] — died of her injuries four days later.[13][14][15][16]

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