The son of an Irish-born policeman, John Francis, and his wife Mary (née Gibbons), the young McHale was born in Sydney, New South Wales but moved to Melbourne with his family at age 5.
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Sadly, he suffered a heart attack the next day and then died on 4 October at his home in Coburg (the infamous bank-roller of Collingwood, John Wren suffered a heart attack whilst watching the same final match, and he died on 26 October 1953).
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