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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Alf Baud
| image = Alf Baud 1917.jpg
| caption = Baud in 1917
| fullname = Alfred Miller Baud
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1892|9|20}}
| birth_place = [[Nagambie, Victoria]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|12|5|1892|9|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Heidelberg West, Victoria]]
| originalteam = [[Nagambie Football Club|Nagambie]], [[Eaglehawk Football Club|Eaglehawk]] ([[Bendigo Football League|BFL]])
| height = 178 cm
| weight = 74 kg
| position = Half forward / Half back
| statsend = 1915
| years1 = 1913–1915
| club1 = {{AFL Car}}
| games_goals1 = 53 (16)
| sooyears1 = 1913–1914
| sooteam1 = [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| soogames_goals1 = ? (?)
| careerhighlights = *{{AFL Car}} premiership player [[1914 VFL Grand Final|1914]]
*{{AFL Car}} premiership captain [[1915 VFL Grand Final|1915]]
}}
'''Alfred Miller Baud''' (20 September 1892 – 5 December 1986)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Alf%2BBaud/3075|title=Alf Baud - Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=16 December 2014}}</ref> was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played with [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]] in the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] (VFL).
==Family==
Baud was born in [[Nagambie]] on 20 September 1892.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article265362632 Birth: Baud, ''The Nagambie Times'', (Friday, 7 October 1892), p.2.]</ref>
He was married twice: to Clara Evelyn Thomson (1894-1940) in 1920,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12473644 Deaths: Baud, ''The Argus'', (Tuesday, 18 June 1940), p.4.]</ref> and to Margery Waterstrom (1913-2002) in 1960.
==Employment==
He went to school at Nagambie; and, after leaving school, he went to Bendigo for his first job in the Post Office,<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/24978359 Commonwealth of Australia: Examination No.263: For Appointment as Telegraphist, Postmaster-General's Department ...: For Appontment in Victoria, ''Commonwealth of Australia Gazette'', No.53, (Saturday, 8 July 1911), p.1637.]</ref> and later moved to Melbourne. After the war he resumed work with the Post Office, and served for 50 years as a telegraphist and postmaster including long terms at the Ascot Vale and North Melbourne Post Offices.
==Football==
::'''A Football Sensation'''<br> Another great Carlton player was Alf Baud.<ref>The other Carlton champion was [[Rod McGregor]].</ref> He could play anywhere. The younger generation are proud to speak of the amazing balance of [[Haydn Bunton Sr.|Haydn Bunton]]. I think that Baud, by comparison, would have made Bunton look ordinary. Baud would have been a football sensation had it not been for the war. That finished his career. His war injuries were severe.<br>You would have stopped Baud one minute, or should I say you thought you had stopped him; then in a flash he was past you. He was a thinker. Every counter you met him with was in turn countered by this most elusive footballer. Baud was one of the greatest players we have produced. I don't think he ever reached his top. {{Em-dash}} [[Roy Cazaly]], 5 June 1937.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190342242 Cazaly, Roy (with deLacy, H.A.), "Roy Cazaly's Cavalcade of Footballers", ''The Sporting Globe'', (Saturday, 5 June 1937), p.8.]</ref>
===Nagambie===
Baud originally played with Nagambie, prior to signing with Eaglehawk Football Club in 1911.<ref>{{cite web |title=1911 - Football Notes |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/265485769 |publisher=Nagambie Times (Vic) |access-date=17 February 2024 |page=3 |date=19 May 1911}}</ref>
===Carlton (VFL)===
[[File:1914 Victorian Football Team (Letter to the Editor, by 'Enthusiast').tif|thumb|200px|Enthusiast's Letter to the Editor<br>''The Herald'', 21 September 1934.<ref> 'Enthusiast', "Best Ever in Victoria (Letter to the Editor)", ''The (Melbourne) Herald'', (Saturday, 22 September 1934), p.&nbsp;30.</ref>]]
Baud first played with Carlton with 1913; and, during his three-season career, was a member of two premiership sides. The first came in 1914 when he played on the wing in the club's Grand Final victory and the other came the following season. Selected on the half-back flank, he was Carlton's captain in the [[1915 VFL grand final]], replacing the suspended [[Billy Dick]].<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243393227 Marshall, Harry, ""Two Carlton Captains In 1915 Premier Year", ''The (Melbourne) Herald'', (Thursday, 20 October 1938), p.42.]</ref>
==Military service==
On 31 July 1915, he enlisted in the First AIF, and served with the 5th Division as a signaller.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141828831 Send-Off to Volunteers, ''The Nagambie Times'', (Friday, 1 October 1915), p.3.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154546991 Sgt. Alf Baud, ''The Winner'', (Wednesday, 28 February 1917), p.8.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154546993 Sgt. Alf Baud (photograph), ''The Winner'', (Wednesday, 28 February 1917), p.8.]</ref> After serving in Egypt and France, he was seriously wounded with a shrapnel injury to the head at Anzac Ridge on 30 September 1917,<ref>Service Record.</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155178333 Australia's Roll of Honor: 356th and 357th Casualty Lists: Wounded ("Sergt. A.M. Baud, Nagambie"), ''The Age'' (Monday, 26 November 1917), p.9.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92108016 Sergt. A.M. Baud, ''The Shepparton Advertiser'', (Monday 5 November 1917), p.3.]</ref> leaving him with reduced sight.<ref name="The Age - 24 April 2019 - Buti's Call: AFL muddling the line between theatre of war and football">{{cite news |last1=Tony Buti |author-link=Tony Buti |title=Buti's Call: AFL muddling the line between theatre of war and football |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/buti-s-call-afl-muddling-the-line-between-theatre-of-war-and-football-20190423-p51gif.html |accessdate=25 October 2020 |publisher=[[The Age]] |date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The surgeons put a silver plate in his head that stayed in place for the remainder of his life. He was repatriated to Australia in 1918.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131437674 Local and General News, ''The Nagambie Times'', (Friday, 17 May 1918), p.2.]</ref>
Baud's war service and injury is mentioned in sports journalist [[Martin Flanagan (journalist)|Martin Flanagan]]'s 2003 collection of essays [[The Game in Time of War]].<ref name="The Age - 24 April 2019 - Buti's Call: AFL muddling the line between theatre of war and football"/>
==Carlton selector==
In 1937 he served as chairman of selectors for [[Carlton Football Club]], and they won their first VFL Premiership since 1915.
==VFL Tribunal==
His interest with football continued with Baud spending 19 years on the VFL tribunal.
==Death==
He died at the [[Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital]], [[Heidelberg, Victoria]], on 5 December 1986.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SNozAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KeMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4060%2C5366206 Deaths: Baud, ''The Age'', (Monday, 8 December 1986), p.18.]</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2161444 First World War Nominal Roll: Sergeant Alfred Miller Baud (1852)], collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.
* [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067436/large/5370437.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Sergeant Alfred Miller Band ('''sic''') (1852)], collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.
* [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3057798 First World War Service Record: Sergeant Alfred Miller Baud (1852)], collection of the ''National Archives of Australia''.
==External links==
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*[http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Alf+Baud Bluseum profile]
*[http://www.ozsportshistory.com/melbournerules/1915players.html Ozsportshistory profile]
*[http://inglewood.vic.au/assets/document/1317193844-fff_baud_2011_updates_chptr_6_will_v1.pdf Baud family history]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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