The second son of Edgar Shadforth Tremayne Sambell (1880-1950),[3] and Barbara Katherine Sambell (1879-1963), née McPhee,[4] Jack Reginald Sambell was born at
Violet Town, Victoria, on 20 May 1908.
He married Vera May Howard (1907-1941) in 1935; she died giving birth to a stillborn child on 22 January 1941.[5][6]
He married Mary Irene Healy (1905-2000) in 1942.
Football
Transferred from Glen Iris, in the Eastern Suburbs League, in May 1932,[7] he played in
Yallourn's 1932 Gippsland Football League premiership,[8] and won their club best and fairest award,[9] before he was transferred to Melbourne by the Education Department in early 1933.[10][11][12]
^Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 737.
ISBN978-1-921496-00-4.