Herbert Foulds was born in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1886, and arrived in Adelaide in November 1911. He played for Tandanya in 1912, and although he didn’t appear to be a Railways employee, he turned out for the Locos club in 1913-14. Sometimes known as Islington Locos, this club were Second Division winners in 1913. They didn’t re-appear after the war, but were revived in 1927 as SA Railways. They would win the Adelaide & Suburban League in 1928 and the Pelaco Cup in 1932.
Foulds, who worked as a tailor’s cutter, enlisted at Oaklands in December 1914. He survived Gallipoli, but left the peninsula with a legacy of malaria. His general health was not helped by a bout of VD after arriving in France. He survived the fierce fighting of 1917-18 without mishap and was promoted to lance corporal by the end of the war. He was an official witness to at least two comrades’ deaths. (See the report on AH Morris below).
Foulds was returned to Australia and discharged in March 1919. He played on briefly after the war with Glenelg, and was in the Lancashire Association team that played the SA state team in June 1921.
Herbert Foulds married Nellie Stow in Adelaide in 1920, and died at Melrose House, North Adelaide, in 1973.
