Fred Fielding (footballer)

Fred Fielding (6 September 1889 – 8 August 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League.

Family
The son of James Fielding (-1901), and Winifred Fielding (-1936), née Gleeson, he was born on 6 September 1889.

Military
He enlisted to serve in World War I using the name James Gleeson (his father's given name and his mother's maiden name) while in Perth in 1916.

Death
He died in action on the first day of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final series of offensives by the Allies on the Western Front in World War I.