Francis Carlyle Lamont (9 August 1886 – 22 July 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.497.
Family The son of John James Lamont (-1918),Deaths: Lamont, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 7 October 1918), p.2.Obituary, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 7 October 1918), p.6. and Margaret Ann Lamont (1852-1911), née Carr,Funeral Notices: Lamont, The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 18 February 1911), p.5.(News item), The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 18 February 1911), p.4. 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.The Ballarats' Visit, The Barrier Miner, (Saturday, 18 June 1910), p.8.
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 WatsonLeague Matches, The Australasian, (Saturday, 6 May 1911), p.23. — 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).'Raggles', "Football Gossip", (Melbourne) Punch, (Thursday, 4 May 1911), p.39.
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.Football: League, The Age, (Thursday, 6 June 1912), p.8. In 1915 he was the team's vice-captain.Enlisting Footballers, The (Ballarat) Evening Echo,, (Friday, 9 July 1915), p.2.War and Football: Ballarat Competition Abandoned, The Horsham Times, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.2.
Military service He enlisted in the First AIF on 5 July 1915.Sportsmen Farewelled, The Ballarat Star, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.4.
He left Australia on 23 November 1915 on HMAT Ceramic (A40),Troops embarking at Port Melbourne on A40 HMAT Ceramic, c.1915, photograph in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. 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.Home This Morning, The Argus, (Saturday, 10 May 1919), p.19.
He was discharged on 27 July 1919.
Death He died at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 22 July 1963.Deaths: Lamont, The Age, (Tuesday, 23 July 1963), p.16.
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World War One Nominal Roll: Private Francis Carlyle Lamont (3821), collection of the Australian War Memorial. World War One Embarkation 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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