Frederick Albert Dewey was born in 1888 in Chichester, Sussex.
Emigrating before 1914 he initially played for Prahran, then became captain of Windsor in 1915. A prolific goalscorer, he notched up a 4-goal haul in 1915 against Cambrian United.
Enlisting in 1916, 2nd Lieutenant Dewey was promoted to Lieutenant shortly after arriving in France in April 1917. It is entirely possible that he played in the dominant 2nd Pioneer Battalion team (below) but until team lists are established we cannot be sure.
Returning to Australia at the end of 1919, he played again for Windsor but the trail ends in 1920, possibly because of his impending prosecution. He had become principal of the Jolimont Repatriation School and in 1920 was charged along with other with “having conspired to defraud the Commonwealth by means of false and fraudulent claims of timber alledged to have been supplied to the Repatriation Department”. He was convicted a year later.
He died in 1968 in Victoria at the age of 80.