Full name Percy Edward Roberts Name Percy Roberts Original team(s) Yarragon | Place of death Moulmein, Burma Place of birth Nilma, Victoria | |
Date of birth (1909-09-20)20 September 1909 Date of death 3 August 1943(1943-08-03) (aged 33) | ||
Percy Edward Roberts (20 September 1909 – 3 August 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Football career
Roberts came from Yarragon and made two appearances for Fitzroy as a 19-year-old defender early in the 1929 VFL season. He then left to play for Mornington. In the 1932 VFL season, Roberts returned to Fitzroy and played every game from rounds three to eighteen, a total of 16 appearances. It would be his only season back at Fitzroy, he was granted a clearance to Ballan in 1933.
War service
Roberts enlisted for armed service on 7 February 1941 and a year later, at the Fall of Singapore, was captured by the Japanese. He died of dysentery while a prisoner of war in Moulmein, Burma on 3 August 1943.
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