Ernie Bailes
Ernest Albert Bailes was a former Australian rules footballer, who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League ; and, having been dropped by Collingwood, he transferred mid-season to the Brighton Football Club in the VFA, where he played from 1909 to 1915.Family
Born on 9 August, 1883, the son of Alfred Shrapnell Bailes, who was the Mayor of Sandhurst,, and member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and the younger brother of ex-Fitzroy footballer Barclay "Tich" Bailes.He enlisted in the First AIF in February 1916.
