Willis Reeve | |
Fullname: | Willis Leonard Burton Reeve |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1905 |
Birth Place: | Mandalay, Myanmar |
Death Place: | Carrum, Victoria |
Height: | 184 cm |
Weight: | 82 kg |
Position: | Fullback |
Statsend: | 1932 |
Years1: | 1927–32 |
Games Goals1: | 86 (0) |
Willis Leonard Burton Reeve (29 April 1905 – 6 September 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The eldest son of British Army Sergeant Leonard Reeve (1866–1955) and Grace Marie Reeve, née Weston (1881–1948), Willis Reeve was born in what was then Burma on 29 April 1905. The Reeve family migrated to Australia in 1911.
Reeve later served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.[2]