OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Remembrance Service Football Disaster

DATE1992

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.617

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 Kylie and Karina Downward placing flowers at the Memorial for the Football Disaster during the Remembrance Service, also in the image is Neil Taylor, Stephen Noonan and Rev Venn, Presbyterian Minister

SUBJECTS

Centenaries, Drownings, Flowers, Footballers, Memorials

KEYWORDS

Centenaries, Drownings, Flowers, Footballers, Kylie and Karina Downward, Memorials, Mornington Football Disaster, Neil Taylor, Rev Venn, Stephen Noonan