"Jim" James GILLESPIE

Born C.1885 ^[15]
Son of James GILLESPIE and Kate PARFITT ^{[239: Tree 19C]}
Member of the Wanderers Football Club in Moora in 1913 ^{[9: 29-Aug-1913]}
     The Wanderers Football Club was an all-Aboriginal team which competed in the Moora Football Association ^{[120: 28-Jul-1949]}
     Years later in 1949 he recalled a time when their team of 18 players defeated a white team numbering 25 ^{[120: 28-Jul-1949]}
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1913 and 1915 ^{[9: 28-Nov-1913, 26-Nov-1915]}
Along with another two Aboriginal trackers from Moora, he helped search for missing four year old boy Lionel MARTIN in 1917 ^[10]
     Lionel had been going to a neighbour's house on an errand for his mother but never arrived or returned home ^[10]
     He and the other trackers gave all their energy in the search, tracking the boy's tracks in the sand until they were lost ^[10]
     The boy was later found safe and sound in a stable - after spending two days and nights lost in the bush ^{[10: 13-Apr-1917]}

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