Tom Moore
admin2025-10-15T12:27:06+11:00Received life membership in 1957.
An Ainslie Junior form 1944 – Tom Played in the senior teams for a long stretch from 1950 – 1969. He was a member of the AFC Committee from 1953 to 1977. Tom was […]
Matthew F Kildea
admin2025-10-15T12:25:18+11:00Received life membership in 1955.
Matthew contributed to the club as an official in various roles, starting off as a committee member in 1936 to 1937, he would then be the clubs treasurer from 1938 to 1941. Unfortunately there are little […]
Bruce Whatman
admin2025-10-15T12:24:11+11:00Received life membership in 1954.
Bruce began playing for the club in 1947 and would continue playing on the team alongside performing his duties as a club member. With 1954 being his highlight year where he would be both […]
Robert ‘Bob’ Bloomfield
admin2026-08-20T10:27:21+10:00Received life membership in 1954.
Bob Bloomfield was a proud Wiradjuri man who was looked up to by many of his peers, an exemplar of integrity and moral standing.
Born in Hay in 1918 into a time period unfavourable to Aboriginal people, […]
H Dudley Kruger
admin2025-10-08T13:20:55+11:00Received his life membership in 1953.
Initially playing for Ainslie starting in 1940, Hugh Dudley Kruger was a busy man. Alongside his time playing AFL, he was also the football club secretary, and working for the ACT Department of health. He […]
Lionel D James
admin2025-10-15T12:12:48+11:00Received 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 working and playing at the […]
Tom Evans
admin2025-10-15T12:12:00+11:00Received 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 stint as a player he […]
Arthur Bryan
admin2025-10-15T12:10:09+11:00Received 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 across multiple First and Second […]
Ralph Lewis
admin2026-08-12T12:23:17+10:00Received life membership in 1948.
Born in Victoria in 1893, Ralph spent his youth in Northern Tasmania and attended Launceston Grammar. It was here that he started his football career in 1903. He went on to the Working Men’s College of […]