Hugh Norman Coventry (8 April 1922 – 21 July 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
| Hugh Coventry | |||
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 Coventry in 1941 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Hugh Norman Coventry | ||
| Date of birth | 8 April 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Clifton Hill, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 21 July 2006 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Porepunkah, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Ivanhoe Amateurs | ||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1941 | Collingwood | 8 (11) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Family
editThe son of Sydney Alfred Coventry (1899-1976),[1] and Gladys Eileen Coventry (1901-1987), née Trevaskis, Hugh Norman Coventry was born at Clifton Hill on 8 April 1922.
He was the nephew of Gordon Coventry, and was named after another uncle, Hugh Norman "Oak" Coventry (1895-1916), who was (posthumously) mentioned in dispatches for "gallant devotion to duty as volunteer stretcher bearer, carrying the wounded" on 9 August 1916,[2] and had been killed in action while serving with the First AIF in Pozieres,[3][4][5][6]
He married Beth Gradwell at St John's Cathedral in Brisbane on 4 September 1945.[7][8]
Collingwood (VFL)
editHe was cleared from Ivanhoe Amateur Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) to Collingwood on 10 June 1940.[9][10]
Military service
editHis career was interrupted by World War 2 after playing on the half-forward flank in Collingwood's 1940 Reserves Semi-Final team,[11] and making his debut at 19 in 1941. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Flight Lieutenant.[12]
Wycheproof (NCFL)
editIn 1952 he was the captain-coach of the Wycheproof Football Club in the North Central Football League (NCFL).[13]
Notes
edit- ^ Deaths: Coventry, The Age, (Thursday, 11 November 1976), p.27.
- ^ Army Form W.3121, dated 9 August 1916, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
- ^ Roll of Honour: Private Hugh Norman Coventry (3787), Australian War Memorial.
- ^ World War One Service Record: Private Hugh Norman Coventry (3787), National Archives of Australia.
- ^ Deaths: On Active Service: Coventry, The Age, (Saturday, 23 September 1916), p.7.
- ^ "The Coventry Boys", victoriancollections.net.au.
- ^ Coventry—Gradwell, The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Tuesday, 4 September 1945), p.4.
- ^ Servicemen and Servicewomen Wed in Queensland and Victoria: Coventry—Gradwell, The Australasian, (Saturday, 29 September 1945), p.29.
- ^ Football: VFL Permits, The Age, (Thursday, 11 July 1940), p4.
- ^ Eager to Carry On, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday. 29 March 1947), p.3.
- ^ League Seconds Final, The Age, (Friday, 19 September 1941), p.5.
- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ^ Leading Country Football Teams, The Weekly Times, (Wednesday, 22 October 1952), p.41.
References
edit- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- World War Two Nominal Roll: Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Coventry (410042), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
- Honours and Awards (Recommendation): Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Coventry (410042), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
- Honours and Awards: Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Coventry (410042), Australian War Memorial.
- Supplement to the London Gazette, 23 March, 1945, p.1598.
- Royal Australian Air Force: Distinguished Flying Cross: "Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Coventry, No.410042", Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.70, (Thursday, 12 April 1945), p.855.
External links
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- Hugh Coventry's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Hugh Coventry at AustralianFootball.com
- Hugh Coventry, at Boyles Football Photos.
- Profile on Collingwood Forever