Original team(s) Melbourne's reserves Years Club | Height / weight 178 cm / 73 kg Died 18 October 1965 | |
Full name Percy Theodore Cheffers Date of birth (1913-06-01)1 June 1913 Date of death 18 October 1965(1965-10-18) (aged 52) | ||
Percy Cheffers (1 June 1913 – 18 October 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Before joining St Kilda, Cheffers played with Melbourne's reserves side, winning a VFL seconds premiership in 1935.
Percy's most notable contribution to the world was however his World War II service, where he started out as a private in the Engineering service(RAEME) in 1940 for the Australian Sixth Division(an electrician), in the 2/2nd Field Company, (RAEME), and ended up a second class Warrant Officer in charge of around 18 people who fixed up radios for the Australian Ninth Division. He saw action in Libya, Palestine, New Guinea and Borneo. He was one of millions who by their very able war service were part of the "Greatest" generation.
Percy married Mary Ellen Braines in the 1930s and had four children with her. He married his second wife, Audrey, in the 1950s. He died in a house fire in Fitzroy in 1965.
His son, John Cheffers, became a noted sports academician.