Bob Stone

Bob Stone
Personal information
Full name Robert Lewis Stone
Born (1925-05-26)26 May 1925
Somerville, Victoria
Died 24 June 2015(2015-06-24) (aged 90)
Inverloch, Victoria
Original team Hastings
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1942–43, 1949 Melbourne 8 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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

Personal life

The son of Ronald William Stone (1897–1967), and Gertrude Amy Stone (1898–1951), 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.

Australian rules football

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

Notes

  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. ↑ 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. ↑ "Deaths: Stone". The Argus. 16 July 1951. p. 15.
  4. ↑ "OBITUARY: Hard Times Inspired Achievement". The Great Southern Star. 14 July 2015. p. 32.
  5. ↑ "Training Lists". The Argus. 4 May 1942. p. 6.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Percy (24 June 1944). "Melbourne are Proud of their Great War Record". The Australasian. p. 23.
  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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