John Thomas Shelton (24 January 1905 – 1 May 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and South Melbourne.

[1] The son of Richard John and Jane Elizabeth Shelton (née Skinner), he was born at Avenel, Victoria, on 24 January 1905.

He returned to Avenel for the 1927 season; and, rejoined play with St Kilda in mid-1928, resuming his senior career in the eighth round match against Essendon, in the first ruck, at Windy Hill, on 4 June 1928.

The mist rolled down again, cutting out any obser- vation until twenty minutes later, when a carrier was observed burning on the Acroma Road.

Shelton, who was driving, was killed, but his foot jammed on the accelerator and his crew were able to turn the vehicle back; but they were then hit again and the petrol tank blew up.

Both his eldest brother, Private Richard John Shelton (1895–1967),[21] and his second-oldest brother, Sergeant Leslie Norman Shelton (1897–1933),[22] had served in the First AIF (they both enlisted on 19 September 1914, with Leslie producing letters of permission from his mother and father).

After training at Wangaratta, he was promoted to Lieutenant, joined the 2/24th Battalion,[b] and was sent to the Middle East, and then Northern Africa, with the 9th Division.