Les James
Leslie Joseph James, also known as "Jack James", was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League.
He was killed in action in World War I. He died on the Passchendaele salient in 1917.
Family
Fifth of the eighth children of Joseph James, and Martha James, née Smith, Leslie Joseph James was born at Geelong on 29 June 1890.He married Alice May Ward in 1913. They had two children: Leslie Thomas James, and Iris May James.
Two of his brothers, Frederick William "Fred" James and Sydney Harold "Syd" James, also played with Geelong: Fred, played two games in 1908, and Syd played four games in 1919.