{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1917}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Bernie Bignell | image = | fullname = Charles Bernard Alfred Bignell | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|05|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|06|19|1917|05|12|df=y}} | death_place = Kew, Victoria, Australia | originalteam = Mantons & Northcote High School | height = 174 cm | weight = 79 kg | position = | statsend = 1945 | years1 = 1940, 1945 | club1 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals1 = 6 (0) | careerhighlights = }} '''Charles Bernard Alfred Bignell''' (12 May 1917 – 19 June 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>Holmesby (2009), p.67.</ref>
==Family== He married Gwendoline Phyllis Allan in 1942.
==Military service== He enlisted in the Second AIF in August 1940.
==Death== He died at his home in Kew, Victoria on 19 June 1967.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y9RYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=967%2C3523875 Deaths: Bignell, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 21 June 1967), p.25.]</ref>
== Notes == {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria}} * [http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=706433&c=WW2 World War Two Service Record: Bernard Alfred Charles Bignell (V61112), ''Department of Veteran's Affairs''.]
== External links == *{{AFL Tables|ref=B/Bernie_Bignell.html}} *[http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bernie+Bignell Bernie Bignell's profile] at Blueseum
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