Les Charge

Leslie Barkly Charge (27 July 1891 – 30 March 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family The son of Henry Barkly Charge (1866–1912),Deaths: Charge, The Age, (Monday, 11 March 1912), p. 1. and Alice Mary Ann Charge (1864–1920), née Kendall,Deaths: Charge, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 8 August 1920), p. 8. Leslie Barkly Charge was born at Richmond, Victoria on 27 July 1891.Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration no.27139/1891.

He married Nellie May Bethune (1889–1976), at Echuca, Victoria on 26 September 1917.Marriages: Charge—Bethune, The Leader, (Saturday, 17 November 1917), p.55. They had three daughters.

Football

South Melbourne A powerful tap-ruckman, Charge was recruited from the Leopold Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) in 1910,Holmesby & Main (2007).AustralianFootball.com. at the suggestion of the former South Melbourne champion, Harry Lampe.Les. Charge pays a Visit" Famous Ruckman meets an Old Friend, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 5 July 1947), p. 4.

Charge took a while to establish a place in the senior team; however, he eventually became a regular fixture, playing 56 of his 65 senior matches from 1912 to 1914.AFL Tables. He was first ruck in South Melbourne's 1912 VFL Grand Final loss to Essendon and its 1914 VFL Grand Final loss to Carlton. "By a popular vote taken by the proprietors of the football journal "The Follower", Les Charge, of South Melbourne, has been acclaimed the best all-round footballer in the League competition. Charge secured over 20,000 votes, and will be presented with a gold medal valued at £2 2/." The (Emerald Hill) Record, 27 March 1915.(News Item), The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 27 March 1915), p. 2: the amount awarded as a prize, £2/2/-, would have been spoken of as two guineas.

North Shore (NSWAFA) Along with Des Baird (ex-South Melbourne, ex-St Kilda), Tom Fitzmaurice (ex-Essendon), Billy Friend (ex-Wesley College),Clarence Randolph Friend, New South Wales Australian Football History Society. Bryan Rush (ex-Collingwood), Gerald Ryan (ex-South Melbourne), and Paddy Shea (ex-Essendon), he played for the North Shore Australian Football Club the NSW Australian Football Association.Fitzmaurice, T., "A Frame Up, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 1 June 1935), p.7. He played for three seasons (1921 to 1923), and was a member of North Shore's 1921 premiership side.New South Wales Australian Football History Society."North Sydney: D. Baird (capt.), L. Charge, T. Fitzmaurice, J. Dunlop. J. McGrath, C. Friend, J. Somerlad, W. Castles, D. Cohen, B. Quinn, B. King, B. Castles, B. Rush, G. Bingham. M. Learoyd, G. Ryan, J.M. Laughlin, A. Erskine." (The Sydney Sportsman, 14 September 1921.) On 9 July 1921, at the Erskineville Oval, he also played for a combined Sydney team against a combined Newcastle Football League team.

Death He died in New South Wales on 30 March 1957.Deaths: Charge, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 1 April 1957), p.16.

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