William George Hulme Lever (20 April 1904 – 25 September 1986) was a former
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with
Carlton in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL).
Family
The son of William Lever (1877–1909) and Sophia Amelia Lever (1882–1962), née Potter, William George Hulme Lever was born at Prahran, Victoria on 20 April 1904.
Football
Carlton (VFL)
Bill Lever played fourteen games for Carlton in 1929–30.
Preston (VFA)
Bill Lever subsequently played seven games for
Preston in the 1930 season.
Military service
Aged 36, Lever enlisted in the
Volunteer Defence Corps during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
in 1940, and served in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
until 1944.
Notes
External links
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Bill Lever's playing statisticsfrom The VFA Project
Bill Lever's profileat Blueseum
1904 births
1986 deaths
Rochester Football Club players
Carlton Football Club players
Northern Bullants players
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Volunteer Defence Corps soldiers
Military personnel from Melbourne
People from Prahran, Victoria
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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