Frank Lugton

Frank Lugton
Personal information
Full name	Frank Leslie Lugton
Date of birth	4 November 1893
Place of birth	Northcote, Victoria
Date of death
Place of death	near Villers-Bretonneux, France
Original team(s)	Clifton Hill
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1913–1914	Melbourne	36 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1914 season.

Frank Leslie Lugton (4 November 1893 – 29 July 1916) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). As a cricketer he was as right-handed batsman and fast bowler.

Lugton made his VFL debut in 1913 and the following summer played five Sheffield Shield games for the Victorian cricket team, making 218 runs at 31.14 and taking nine wickets at 34.00. He returned to the VFL for the 1914 season before enlisting in the military. Lugton survived the fighting in Gallipoli but went on to serve in France where he was killed in 1916, near Villiers-Bretonneux. He was the first Sheffield Shield cricketer to lose his life in the war.

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers
• List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

References

• Main, J. & Allen, D., "Lugton, Frank", pp. 106–109 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen — The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. ISBN 1-74095-010-0

External links

• Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour: Frank Leslie Lugton (447)
• Details of his military service
• Cricinfo profile
• Frank Lugton's statistics from AFL Tables