Harry Chesswas

Harry Chesswas
Chesswas during his Collingwood career
Personal information
Full name Harold Clark Chesswas
Born 18 June 1901
Collingwood, Victoria
Died 24 October 1956(1956-10-24) (aged 55)
Kew, Victoria
Original team Northcote
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1922–1931 Collingwood 154 (45)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1931.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harold Clark "Bottles" Chesswas (18 June 1901 – 24 October 1956) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.

Family

The son of George Forrester Chesswas (1858–1924), and Louisa Chesswas (1862–1903), née Freeman, Harold Clark Chesswas was born in Collingwood, Victoria, on 18 June 1901.

He married Letitia Mary Lingham (1902–1972) in 1932.

Football

Chesswas was a utility player, who played mainly on the wing.

Death

He died at Kew, Victoria, on 24 October 1956.

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Chesswas family was very poor and the parents died at a young age, so young Harold collected bottles as a kid to help supplement what little income they had. That obsession with bottle collecting led to the nickname by which he was known for most of his life, apparently bestowed on him by the headmaster of the Victoria Park State School." -- Collingwood Forever.
  2. ↑ "To his friends Chesswas is not known as Harold, but as "Bottles". He earned this soubriquet from the head-master of the Victoria Park State school, but he does not know why. One afternoon in school the master called him "Bottles", and after that his mates knew him by no other name." -- Sharland (1924).
  3. ↑ Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Friday, 31 October 1924), p.1.
  4. ↑ Marriages: Chesswas—Freeman, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 6 May 1882), p.15.
  5. ↑ Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Friday, 23 October 1903), p.1.
  6. ↑ Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Tuesday, 21 November 1972), p.24.
  7. ↑ Deaths: Chesswas, The Argus, (Thursday, 25 October 1956), p.12.

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