LIFE MEMBER HONOUR ROLL

The Ainslie Football Club are proud to launch the Life Member Honour Roll, highlighting the contributions of such significant people in our Club’s history.

The Club has inducted 110 Life Members since 1931, without these extraordinary individuals we would not be the Club we are today.

Lionel D James

Received life membership in 1950.

The senior of the Lionel lineage; Lionel D. James and his family have been with Ainslie football club for decades, with now 4 generations of the James family […]

Tom Evans

Received life membership in 1949.

Tom began playing for Ainslie back in 1936 and would continue playing until 1950, he was consistently a top performing player and would be taking home awards each year.

After finishing his […]

Arthur Bryan

Received life membership in 1949.

“Artie” was a player with Ainslie for the better part of 2 decades, starting play around the start of the club as a junior in 1929, he would continue to play […]

Ralph Lewis

Received life membership in 1948.

Born 1893 was a long time part of Ainslie, moving to Canberra in in 1932 he stepped up as President in 1939 and was the longest serving club president at a […]

  • Multiple black and white images of Harry Gaylard. From left to right: Harry on stage next to Bob Bloomfield, Harry in suit, Harry in suit, Harry as a player in his jersey.

Harry Gaylard

Received life membership in 1947.

A member of the first Ainslie team in 1927 and First Grade Coach 1932. He coached junior teams and umpired 1935-1941 and was prominent in the re-establishment of the club […]

Christopher Gregory

Received life membership in 1939.

Another of the founding members at Ainslie, joining the committee in 1928 was just the start of his tenure at the club. Chris worked his way up to the role of […]