Bill Baxter (Australian footballer)

Bill Baxter
Personal information
Full name William John Baxter
Date of birth (1919-05-29)29 May 1919
Place of birth Werribee, Victoria
Date of death 23 March 1983(1983-03-23) (aged 63)
Place of death Werribee, Victoria
Original team(s) Werribee
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1939–41 Melbourne 20 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

William John Baxter (29 May 1919 – 23 March 1983)[1] was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

The son of William John Thomas Baxter (1892-1963), and Margaret Josephine Baxter (1888-1972), née Nihill,[3] William John Baxter was born in Werribee, Victoria on 29 May 1919.

His brothers, Kenneth Matthew Patrick Baxter (1917-1959), and Bernard Patrick Baxter (1929-2012), both played with Carlton in the VFL.

He married Olive Lillian Sneezewell (1919-1983) on 23 November 1940.[4]

Military service

He served in the Australian Army with the 32nd Battalion.[5]

Death

He died at Werribee, Victoria on 23 March 1983.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Bill Baxter - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2009), p.52.
  3. ^ Wedding Bells: Baxter—Nihill, The Kyabram Guardian, (Tuesday, 4 May 1915), p.3.
  4. ^ League Footballer Married, The Argus, (Monday, 25 November 1940), p.6.
  5. ^ Nominal Roll.
  6. ^ Deaths: Baxter, The Age, (Friday, 25 March 1983), p.22.

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