Ernest Gowenlock
Ernest Stanley Gowenlock (1890–1918), was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League - the major rugby league competition in Australia.
Ernie Gowenlock played for the Eastern Suburbs club in 1913, that season Easts' won the premiership - their third. A winger, Gowenlock is recognised as the 'Tricolours' 68th player.
War service[]
Gowenlock joined World War I with the 57th Battalion in France and died of wounds inflicted at Gueudecourt on 10 April 1918 aged 28.[1]
References[]
- ^ Middleton, David (24 April 2010). "Footy stars taken on battlefield". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson
Categories:
- Australian rugby league players
- Sydney Roosters players
- 1918 deaths
- Australian military personnel killed in World War I
- 1890 births
- Australian rugby league biography, 1890s birth stubs