Frank Lamont

Francis Carlyle Lamont (9 August 1886 – 22 July 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Frank Lamont
Personal information
Full name Francis Carlyle Lamont
Date of birth (1886-08-09)9 August 1886
Place of birth Ballarat East, Victoria
Date of death 22 July 1963(1963-07-22) (aged 76)
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) South Ballarat (BFL)
Height 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911–12 Fitzroy 17 (9)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1912.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of John James Lamont (-1918),[2] [3] and Margaret Ann Lamont (1852-1911), née Carr,[4][5] Francis Carlyle Lamont was born at Ballarat East, Victoria on 9 August 1886.

He married Sarah Amelia McDiarmid (1888-1972) in 1908.

Football

South Ballarat (BFL)

Playing for South Ballarat Football Club in the Ballarat Football League, he was selected in a combined Ballarat League team in June 1910.[6]

Fitzroy (VFL)

Cleared from South Ballarat, he made his debut, as one of the seven new players for Fitzroy — i.e., Ernie Everett, Jack Furness, Cliff Hutton, Frank Lamont, Tom Moloughney, Danny Murphy, and Eric Watson[7] — against Melbourne on 29 April 1911: "The maroons have a star in Lamont, the boy from South Ballarat, playing winning [foot]ball throughout" (Melbourne Punch, 4 May 1911).[8]

South Ballarat (BFL)

On 5 June 1912, having played in the season's first two matches, he was cleared from Fitzroy back to South Ballarat.[9] In 1915 he was the team's vice-captain.[10][11]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 5 July 1915.[12]

He left Australia on 23 November 1915 on the HMAT Ceramic (A40),[13] served overseas with the 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion, and returned to Australia on the SS Armagh which left Plymouth on 5 April 1919 and arrived in Melbourne on 18 May 1919.[14].

He was discharged on 27 July 1919.

Death

He did at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 22 July 1963.[15]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.497.
  2. Deaths: Lamont, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 7 October 1918), p.2.
  3. Obituary, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 7 October 1918), p.6.
  4. Funeral Notices: Lamont, The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 18 February 1911), p.5.
  5. (News item), The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 18 February 1911), p.4.
  6. The Ballarats' Visit, The Barrier Miner, (Saturday, 18 June 1910), p.8.
  7. League Matches, The Australasian, (Saturday, 6 May 1911), p.23.
  8. 'Raggles', "Football Gossip", (Melbourne) Punch, (Thursday, 4 May 1911), p.39.
  9. Football: League, The Age, (Thursday, 6 June 1912), p.8.
  10. Enlisting Footballers, The (Ballarat) Evening Echo,, (Friday, 9 July 1915), p.2.
  11. War and Football: Ballarat Competition Abandoned, The Horsham Times, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.2.
  12. Sportsmen Farewelled, The Ballarat Star, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.4.
  13. Troops embarking at Port Melbourne on A40 HMAT Ceramic, c.1915, photograph in the collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  14. Home This Morning, The Argus, (Saturday, 10 May 1919), p.19.
  15. Deaths: Lamont, The Age, (Tuesday, 23 July 1963), p.16.
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References
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War One Nominal Roll: Private Francis Carlyle Lamont (3821), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Embakation Roll: Private Francis Carlysle (sic) Lamont (3821), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Service Record: Private Francis Carlyle Lamont (3821), National Archives of Australia.
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