Bob Flegg
Robert Barnes Flegg was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.
Family
The son of William Ernest Flegg, and Grace Pearl Flegg, née Walsh, Robert Barnes Flegg was born at Sandringham, Victoria on 19 August 1918.He married Leslie Mavis Smith, later Mrs. Clarence Wilbur Henry Harvey, in 1941.
Football
Ormond (VAFA)
He played for several seasons with Ormond Amateur Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). He scored 130 goals in the 1937 season, and won the club's "Best Recruit" award.Sandringham (VFA)
Recruited from Ormond, he played for Sandringham First XVIII in the last five home-and-away matches for the 1940 VFA season, and the first three matches of the 1941 season.St Kilda
Cleared from Sandringham on 23 April 1941, he played in all eighteen of the 1941 season's home-and-away matches with the St Kilda First XVIII. He was St Kilda's top goal scorer in 1941, with a total of 47 goals for the season.Military service
He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II on 5 December 1941.Death
He was killed when his plane was shot down over Feuersbrunn in the Grafenwörth district of Austria on 7 July 1944.He was buried at the British War Cemetery at Klagenfurt, in Austria.