Bill Woods (Australian footballer) explained

Bill Woods
Fullname:	William Woods
Birth Date:	31 August 1890
Birth Place:	Portarlington, Victoria
Death Place:	Heidelberg, Victoria
Originalteam:	Ashby
Height:	1.64m
Weight:	54kg
Statsend:	1909
Years1:	1909
Games Goals1:	2 (0)

William Woods (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.

References

• Book: Holmesby, Russell. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Main. Jim . 2014 . 10th . 978-1-921496-32-5 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria.
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.971.
2. Note that the Argus football correspondent, "Old Boy" (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10708076), (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. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130686641 Portarlington, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 24 August 1915), p.5.