Ernie Bailes

Ernest Albert Bailes was an Australian [rules football]er. He 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, (1883-1884), and Members of the [Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1889–1892|member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1896-1894, 1897-1907)], and the younger brother of ex-Fitzroy footballer Barclay "Tich" Bailes.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in February 1916.