Jim Pender (footballer, born 1877)

James Robert Pender (3 July 1877 – 2 July 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Jim Pender
Personal information
Full name James Robert Pender
Date of birth 3 July 1877
Place of birth North Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 2 July 1916(1916-07-02) (aged 38)
Place of death Bois-Grenier, France
Original team(s) Wellington
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1898 Carlton 15 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1898.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Michael Pender, and Mary Anne Pender, née O'Dowd, James Robert Pender was born in North Melbourne, Victoria (then known as "Hotham") on 3 July 1877.

His three brothers — Michael "Mick" Pender (1868-1924) (Carlton), Daniel Emmett "Dan" Pender (1873-1968) (Carlton), and Peter Lawrence John Aloysius "Laurie" Pender (1887-1966) (Geelong) — all played VFL football.

He married Minne Ethel Harvey (1882-1959) in 1900. Their son, James Michael "Jim" Pender (1911-1985), played one First XVIII match for Geelong in 1936.

Football

Recruited from the Wellington Football Club in the Geelong Junior football Association, he played 15 games with the Carlton First XVIII in 1898.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 9 July 1915.

Death

He was killed in action, in France, on 2 July 1916.[1]

On 2 July 1916, while serving as the batman of Second Lieutenant Robert David Julian, and having been told that his officer (and good friend) Julian had been shot while in charge of a party raiding the German trenches, impaled upon barbed wire in "no man's Land", and very possibly dead, and that the others (also wounded) fighting with him had been able to bring him back to the Australian lines, Pender went out to find him and bring him back.

Pender did not return to the Australian lines, and was never seen again (and neither was Julian).[2]

Pender was declared "missing in action" in July 1916;[3] and was officially declared "killed in action on 2 July 1916" in 1917.[4][5]

Memorial

He has no grave. His death is commemorated at the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial.[6]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Deaths: Pender, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 26 September 1918), p.1.
  2. Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files, 1914-18 War: 1DRL/0428: 2nd Lieutenant Robert David Julian, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  3. Australian Casualties: 189th List: Missing, The Argus, (Friday, 4 August 1916), p.5.
  4. Memo dated 11 May 1917, in service Record.
  5. His name appeared on Casualty List No.300: Australia's Roll of Honor: 299th and 300th Casualty Lists: Killed in Action: Victoria, The Age, (Saturday, 19 May 1917), p.12.
  6. Private James R. Pender (3458), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

References
  • Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. ISBN 978-0-9923791-4-8.
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
  • Main, J. & Allen, D., "Pender, Jim", pp. 147–149 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. ISBN 1-74095-010-0
  • Tapner, Warren, "The Great Fallen: James Pender", The Blueseum, 21 April 2015.
  • World War One Service Record: Private James Robert Pender (3458), National Archives of Australia.
  • Roll of Honour: Private James Robert Pender (3458), Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Nominal Roll: Private James Robert Pender (3458), Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files, 1914-18 War: 1DRL/0428: 3458 Private James Robert Pender: 14th Battalion, Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
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