OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Footballer Disaster Memorial

DATE1993

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.775

HISTORY

In 1892, fifteen members of the Mornington Football Team drowned whilst returning from a match at Mordialloc
of the 1600 pounds raised, 75 pounds was used to erect this memorial
The drowned were Charles Hooper 35, Charles F. Hooper Jnr 14, John Comber 31, James Reid Caldwell 21, William Lindsay Caldwell 19, Hugh Caldwell 17, Charles Ernest Allchin 19, William Grover 25, William Grover 17, James Firth 17, Charles Williams 23, Alfred Herbert Lawrence 19, John Kenna 18, William Coles 23 and George Connor Milne 38

DESCRIPTION

Looking at the memorial from the corner Esplanade and Schnapper Point Drive

SUBJECTS

Football, Footballers, Memorials

KEYWORDS

Alfred Herbert Lawrence, Charles Ernest Allchin, Charles F. Hooper Jnr, Charles Hooper, Charles Williams, Esplanade, Football, Footballers, Footballers Memorial, George Connor Milne, Hugh Caldwell, James Firth, James Reid Caldwell, John Kenna, Memorials, Mornington, Schnapper Point Drive, William Coles, William Grover, William Lindsay Caldwell