Fred Fielding (6 September 1889 – 8 August 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League.
Recruited from South Bendigo where he played in their 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1912 Bendigo Football Association premiership teams.
Family The son of James Fielding (-1901),Funeral Notices, The Bendigo Independent, (Thursday, 17 October 1901), p.4. and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson,Deaths: Fielding, The Age, 22 July 1936), p1. he was born on 6 September 1889.
Military He enlisted to serve in World War I using the name James Gleeson (his father's given name and his mother's maiden name) while in Perth in 1916.
Death He died in action on the first day of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final series of offensives by the Allies on the Western Front in World War I.For Freedom's Cause: Deaths: Fielding, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 5 September 1918), p.3.
See also List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service
Footnotes
References Roll of Honour: Private Fred Fielding, also known as James Gleeson (5596), Australian War Memorial. World War I Service Record: Fred Fielding (a.k.a. James Gleeson) (5596), National Archives of Australia.
External links
1912 - Fred Fielding photo, South Bendigo FC