Charlie Pettiona
Personal information
Full name Charles Joseph Pettiona
Date of birth (1913-07-10)10 July 1913
Place of birth South Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 23 October 1946(1946-10-23) (aged 33)
Place of death South Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) Port Melbourne
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935 Port Melbourne (VFA) 09 (0)
1936–1937 South Melbourne 14 (0)
1939–1941 Sandringham (VFA) 37 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Joseph "Laddie" Pettiona (10 July 1913 – 23 October 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Thomas Joseph Pettiona (1890-1950),[1] and Annie Maud Pettiona (1895-1966), née Janman,[2] Charles Joseph Pettiona was born at South Melbourne, Victoria on 10 July 1913.

He married Gladwyn Greenway (1915-), later Mrs. William Charles Young, on 9 October 1937. They had two children.

Football

Pettiona, a Port Melbourne recruit, started out at South Melbourne in 1936, two years after his uncle Cecil Pettiona had played for the club.[3]

He made eight appearances in the 1936 VFL season, which included South Melbourne's grand final loss to Collingwood (as 19th man), his first loss in South Melbourne colours.[4]

In 1937 he played six senior games, then didn't appear at all in the 1938 season and was cleared to Sandringham.[4][5]

Death

On the evening of 23 October 1946 Pettiona was struck and killed by a military truck while cycling down Normanby Road in South Melbourne.[6][7][8][9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Deaths: Pettiona, The Herald, (Monday, 25 September 1950), p.8.
  2. ↑ Funeral Notices: Pettiona, The Age, (Thursday, 6 October 1966), p.17.
  3. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2007).
  4. 1 2 AFL Tables.
  5. ↑ The Argus,"G. Tuite Returns", 12 April 1939, p.9.
  6. ↑ Deaths: Pettiona, The Argus, (Friday,25 October 1946), p.2.
  7. ↑ De Bolfo, Tony, "Italian Team of the Century -- Charles Pettiona", The Footy Almanac, 29 July 2010.
  8. ↑ Former South Melbourne Footballer Killed, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 26 October 1946), p.1.
  9. ↑ Funeral of Former S.M. Footballer: Tributes to "Charlie" Pettiona, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 2 November 1946), p.3.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
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