William Hammond (25 October 1887 – 16 February 1919), nicknamed "Chock", was an
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
Collingwood 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 Thomas Hammond, and Ann Hammond, née Williams, Billy Hammond was born on 25 October 1887. Two of his brothers,
Jack Hammond (1884-1971), and
Charlie Hammond (1886-1936) also played VFL football.
He married Ellen Irvine in 1911.
Death
He died as an inpatient at the Melbourne's special "
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest docum ...
" hospital that had been set up in the
Royal Exhibition Building
The Royal Exhibition Building is a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between ...
on 16 February 1919.
Deaths: Hammond, ''The Age'', (Monday, 17 February 1919), p.1Deaths: Hammond, ''The Age'', (Tuesday, 18 February 1919), p.1Deaths: Hammond, ''The Age'', (Saturday, 22 February 1919), p.1.
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External links
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Billy Hammond's profile
at Collingwood Forever
1887 births
1919 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Collingwood Football Club players
Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Australia
People from Collingwood, Victoria
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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