HAT BAND - ARMDALE FOOTBALL CLUB 1923 PREMIERSHIP
1923Blue, red, blue horizontal striped silk ribbon with gold coloured text along red section at right end. The right end has a small similar coloured cloth band wrapped around it allowing the end to taper in then fan out on the other side of the band. Text on ribbon [PREMIERS A.F.C. 1923]
Presented to Claude Marsh who was a member of the Armadale Football Club team that won the 1923 Sampson Cup after taking out the South Suburban Association Premiership. Claude also won the clubs 'popular footballer competition', a fundraising initiative where over 24 pounds was raised during the season for charity. Claude was a popular member of the local community. his family had arrived in the Armadale area in 1857 when they purchased Paradise Farm on the Albany Road. Claude was born and raised in Armadale, attending the local school before leaving to work as a farm hand. At age 18 he enlisted in World War I in 1916.
On 11 April 1917 he was captured by German forces at Riencourt and spent the next year and a half as a prisoner of war. Claude spent most of that time working on farms in Germany. He returned to Australia in March 1919 and settled back in Armadale where he became a very active member of the community, helping to establish the Armadale branch of the R.S.L, becoming a Justice of the Peace, being a committee member of the Kelmscott Agricultural Society and joining both the Armadale Football and Cricket Clubs. In 1936 he married Dorathy Smith. During World War II he joined the Volunteer Defence Corp. Robert died age 79 in 1976
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The Armadale Football Club was formed in 1909 and represents how the small community of Armadale had grown over the previous twenty years from a handful of people to one now capable of supporting a football club. A number of sporting clubs emerged in Armadale at this time.
Claude was a active and prominent community member who spent most of his life living in Armadale, working, raising a family and contributing to making Armadale a better place to live.
This item is from the Armadale football club premieres in 1923 and is a hat band allocated in the celebrations. This hat band commemorates a local sporting team's 1923 Premiership, and is a rare souvenir of that event. Australian Rules Football a major sporting passtime in Western Australian society from c1870's to now
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