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Bob Stone

Bob Stone

Australian rules footballer (1925–2015)

For the golfer, see Bob Stone (golfer).

Robert Lewis Stone (26 May 1925 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

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Personal life

The son of Ronald William Stone (1897–1967),[2] and Gertrude Amy Stone (1898–1951),[3] née Berryman, Robert Lewis Stone was born at Somerville, Victoria, on 26 May 1925.

Stone married Jean Alison Bourne in 1949. He died from a stroke on 24 June 2015, at the age of 90.[4]

Australian rules football

Cleared to Melbourne from Somerville,[5] Stone's football career was interrupted by his service in the Royal Australian Navy in the Second World War,[6] enlisting as he turned 18 and serving on several ships until the end of the war.[7]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 801. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. [2]
    First World War Nominal Roll: Private Ronald William Stone (6141), Australian War Memorial
    - First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Ronald William Stone (6141), Australian War Memorial
    - World War One Service Record: Private Ronald William Stone (6141), National Archives of Australia.
    - "Deaths: Stone". The Age. 7 December 1967. p. 15.
  3. [3]
    "Deaths: Stone". The Argus. 16 July 1951. p. 15.
  4. [4]
    "OBITUARY: Hard Times Inspired Achievement". The Great Southern Star. 14 July 2015. p. 32.
  5. [5]
    "Training Lists". The Argus. 4 May 1942. p. 6.
  6. [6]
    Taylor, Percy (24 June 1944). "Melbourne are Proud of their Great War Record". The Australasian. p. 23.
  7. [7]
    Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.

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