Joseph Cornelius Oakley (28 January 1914 – 8 December 1980) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.675.
Family The son of Joseph Thomas Oakley (1890–1959),Deaths: Oakley, The Age, (Wednesday, 7 January 1959), p.17. and Theresa Veronica Oakley (1894–1988), née Yee Kee,"Joseph Oakley" and "Tessie Oakley" were married on 10 June 1911; "Joseph Oakley" was granted a divorce from "Tessie Oakley" on the grounds of her desertion in 1935. "Tessie" married her second husband, Thomas Patrick Brady (1888–1961), at Elwood, on 7 April 1938. Joseph Cornelius Oakley was born at Carlton, Victoria on 28 January 1914.
He married Florence Eugenia Dillon (1916–2008) in 1942.
Football Essendon (VFL) Recruited from Sunbury, he played 2 games, and kicked 2 goals, for the Essendon First XVIII in 1934.Essendon Players Ready for Their Game, The Herald, (Monday, 4 June 1934), p.32.Richmond's Fine Recovery; Essendon's Gallant Fight, The Age, (Tuesday, 5 June 1934), p.4.Maplestone (1996), pp.405, 475.
Military service Oakley later served in the Australian Army during World War II.Nominal Roll.
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Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
A14472, VX144515: World War Two Service Record: Craftsman Joseph Cornelius Oakley (VX144515), National Archives of Australia.
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