Percy Roberts | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Percy Edward Roberts | ||
Date of birth | 20 September 1909 | ||
Place of birth | Nilma, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 3 August 1943 | (aged 33)||
Place of death | Moulmein, British Burma | ||
Original team(s) | Yarragon | ||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1929–1932 | Fitzroy | 18 (1) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Percy Edward Roberts (20 September 1909 – 3 August 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Roberts came from Yarragon and made two appearances for Fitzroy as a 19-year-old defender early in the 1929 VFL season.[1][2][3] He then left to play for Mornington.[4] In the 1932 VFL season, Roberts returned to Fitzroy and played every game from rounds three to eighteen, a total of 16 appearances.[5][6] It would be his only season back at Fitzroy, he was granted a clearance to Ballan in 1933.[7]
Roberts enlisted for armed service on 7 February 1941 and a year later, at the Fall of Singapore, was captured by the Japanese.[8][9] He died of dysentery while a prisoner of war in Moulmein, British Burma on 3 August 1943.[9][10]