What is the name of the Australian Footballer who was a person held in custody by a belligerent power during the armed conflict, World War I?
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Billy Stewart (Australian footballer) Billy Stewart (3 August 1884 – 16 April 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Stewart also played for the Victorian team at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, replacing an injured player. He played his last VFL game in a victory against Geelong, before transferring to Prahran in the Victorian Football Association. He would later also play for North Ballarat. Serving for Australia in World War I, he spent time as a Prisoner of war in Germany.
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Prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates to 1660.
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Weary Dunlop Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop, (12 July 1907 – 2 July 1993) was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.
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Wilf Atkinson Wilfred George "Wilf" Atkinson (9 April 1920 – 12 August 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, and was killed in action when his bomber was shot down over Sicily in 1943.
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George Gniel George Christian Gniel (6 April 1919 – 12 September 1989) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Jack Freeman (Australian rules footballer) Jack Freeman was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. Top goalscorer for South Melbourne in 1914, he was badly wounded in World War I. After having both legs amputated, he died in a military hospital on his 25th birthday.
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Alf Hedge Alfred William "Alf" Hedge (29 October 1917 – 4 May 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He served as a bomber pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, and was killed when his plane was shot down over Germany in 1942.
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Bill McLean William Malcolm "Bill" McLean (28 February 1918 – 9 December 1996) was an Australian soldier and a state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in five Test matches immediately after World War II.
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Frank Kerr (footballer) Captain Frank Robison Kerr DSO (5 April 1889 – 3 May 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Edward Bell (footballer) Edward Inkerman Jordan Bell {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1886 – 24 March 1918) was a British professional footballer who played for Southampton in the early 20th century. He later was a soldier who was twice awarded for gallantry in the First World War but died in the Battle of the Somme in March 1918.
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Sydney Strong Sydney Strong (9 October 1897 – 18 November 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Maurice Allingham Maurice William Allingham (died 15 September 1993) was an Australian rules footballer from South Australia. He was the Port Adelaide Football Club's leading goal kicker on four occasions and won the club's best and fairest in 1931. He enlisted for duty during World War I on 16 February 1917 and was part of the 5th Machine Gun Battalion. He returned to Australia on 5 July 1919 and was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal for his duties.
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Alby Rose Albert "Alby" Rose (1 October 1875 – 31 May 1921) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also spent some time in South Africa, where he played two first-class cricket matches for Transvaal.
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Frank Edwards (British Army soldier) Frank Edwards (29 September 1893–January 1964), also known as The Footballer of Loos, was a British Army soldier in the First World War who served as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, during the Battle of Loos. He is distinguished for leading the London Irish across no man's land to storm enemy trenches kicking a football ahead of the troops. The successful capture of enemy positions that followed earned the London Irish Rifles their second battle honour, "Loos, 1915". The football is still preserved in the regimental museum of the London Irish and to this day the memory of Edwards is commemorated on Loos Sunday.
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John Campbell Ross John Campbell "Jack" Ross (11 March 1899 – 3 June 2009) was at the time of his death Australia's oldest living person and the last Australian veteran of the First World War.
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Henri Jeanneret Henri Edward Jeanneret (1 January 1878 – 1 June 1935) was a Swiss-born Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Jack McIntosh (footballer) Jack McIntosh (26 September 1878 – 24 June 1944) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Cyril Cooper Cyril Cooper (7 April 1914 – 7 January 2002) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Jack Greenhill John Dickson "Jack" Greenhill (23 June 1897 – 2 July 1977) was an Australian rules football player who served with the Australian Imperial Force during World War I. His brother Charlie Greenhill was also an Australian rules footballer.
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Albert Sawley Albert George "Pongo" Sawley (27 October 1915 – 13 August 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He fought in World War II alongside his brother Gordon Sawley, a Norwood and South Melbourne footballer who was killed in a training accident.
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Norm Beckton Norm Beckton (4 May 1898 – 8 September 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1920s.
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Arthur O'Hara Wood Major Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood (10 January 1890 – 6 October 1918) was an Australian male tennis player and Royal Air Force pilot who was killed during the First World War.