OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Remembrance Service Football Disaster

DATE1992

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.616

HISTORY

On 21st May 1892, fifteen members of the Mornington Football Team were drowned whilst on their way home by boat, from a match at Mordialloc, there were no survivors and only four bodies were found

DESCRIPTION

The image is of the Memorial to the Football Disaster, which is located at the corner of Main Street and Schnapper Point Drive, shown in front of the memorial is Mrs Vera Mills and to the right Neil Taylor, Stephen Noonan and Rev Venn, the Presbyterian Minister

SUBJECTS

Centenaries, Drownings, Footballers, Memorials

KEYWORDS

Centenaries, Drownings, Footballers, Main, Memorial, Memorials, Mornington Football Disaster, Mrs Vera Mills, Neil Taylor, Rev Venn, Schnapper Point, Stephen Noonan