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Ernest Gowenlock

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Australian rugby league footballer and soldier

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.

References

  1. 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


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