Hector Mitchell
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Hector Mitchell | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Hector Matheson Mitchell | ||
Date of birth | 19 August 1887 | ||
Place of birth | Warrnambool, Victoria | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. | ||
Place of death | Singapore | ||
Original team(s) | Warrnambool | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1908 | St Kilda | 1 (0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908 season.
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Stoker Hector Matheson Mitchell (19 August 1887 – 16 June 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Mitchell, the second son of Andrew and Grace Mitchell, was born in Warrnambool.[2]
He was with St Kilda during the 1908 VFL season and played one senior game, in round 16, as one of three debutants in a 19-point loss to Collingwood at Victoria Park.[3][4]
His football career was put on hold aged 21 when he enlisted in the Royal Navy, on 4 November 1908.[5] Mitchell, a stoker, was a member of the crew on board HMS Psyche initially, then went to England on HMS Challenger.[6] In England he was posted to HMAS Melbourne, the first cruiser launched for the Royal Australian Navy.[7]
Once he returned to Australia, with his five-year term of service completed, Mitchell went to work at the Newport Workshops, where he remained for two years.[6] Around this time he played football for Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[7]
Mitchell re-enlisted in August 1916 and served on HMAS Cerberus, before he was transferred to HMAS Swan.[6]
On board HMAS Swan, which was in operation with British blockade forces in the Far East, Mitchell began suffering from an illness, described in one source as "brain fever".[7][8] He was sent to a hospital in Singapore, where he died from the illness on 16 June 1917, aged 29.[7][9] Buried with full naval honors, he now rests at Singapore's Kranji War Cemetery.[9][10]
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External links
- Hector Mitchell's statistics from AFL Tables
- Hector Mitchell's profile from AustralianFootball.com
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- 1887 births
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
- St Kilda Football Club players
- Port Melbourne Football Club players
- People from Warrnambool
- 20th-century Royal Navy personnel
- Royal Australian Navy personnel
- Australian military personnel killed in World War I
- 1917 deaths