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Place of birth
  
Fitzroy, Victoria

Original team(s)
  
Wesley College

Place of death
  
near Toulon, France

Name
  
Arch Corbett

Full name
  
Archibald Gladstone Corbett

Date of birth
  
(1883-08-18)18 August 1883

Date of death
  
25 June 1920(1920-06-25) (aged 36)

Archibald Gladstone "Arch" Corbett (18 August 1883 – 25 June 1920) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League. He served as a medical officer during World War I and remained in England after the war to work in London hospitals. He died in 1920 after being lost overboard near the coast of Toulon, while returning to Australia from England on the RMS Orontes.

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