OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Remembrance Service Football Disaster

DATE1992

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.618

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, the boat ‘Process’ was owned and skippered by Charles Hooper, an experienced sailor

DESCRIPTION

A close-up view of the floral remembrances which were placed at the base of the memorial during the Remembrance Service to the Football Disaster 21/5/1892 – 21/5/1992

SUBJECTS

Centenaries, Drownings, Footballers, Memorials

KEYWORDS

Centenaries, Drownings, Footballers, Memorials, Mornington Football Disaster