Bill Woods
Personal information
Full name William Woods
Date of birth (1890-08-31)31 August 1890
Place of birth Portarlington, Victoria
Date of death 1972
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) Ashby
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 54 kg (119 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909 Geelong 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bill Woods (born 31 August 1890) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of William Woods, a farmer, and Isabella Woods, née Cornell, William Woods was born at Portarlington, Victoria on 31 August 1890.[2]

He married Linda Barbara "Mardi" Allen (1889-1991) on 21 August 1915.[3] They had one child, a daughter.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in 1915, served overseas, sustained a gunshot wound to the head in action in France in 1916, and returned to Australia in 1919.

Death

He died at Heidelberg, Victoria in 1972.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.971.
  2. ↑ Note that the Argus football correspondent, "Old Boy" (), (mistakenly) states that he was the brother of the former Geelong footballer, Ike Woods. This is clearly wrong; they each had entirely different parents.
  3. ↑ Portarlington, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 24 August 1915), p.5.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War One Embarkation Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Nominal Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Service Record: Private William Woods (3654), National Archives of Australia.
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