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Jack Turnbull (footballer)

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Original team(s)
  
Horsham


Years
  
Club

Name
  
Jack Turnbull

Full name
  
John Charles McNicol Turnbull

Date of birth
  
(1885-12-30)30 December 1885

Date of death
  
2 May 1917(1917-05-02) (aged 31)

Place of death
  
Western Front, France

John Charles McNicol "Jack" Turnbull was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. After a short VFL career, he returned to the bush and settled in Ballarat. He enlisted in the army during World War I, and was severely injured while in active service. He died of his wounds in 1917.

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Jack Turnbull (footballer) Wikipedia