Percy Cheffers

Percy Cheffers
Personal information
Full name Percy Theodore Cheffers[1]
Date of birth (1913-06-01)1 June 1913
Date of death 18 October 1965(1965-10-18) (aged 52)
Original team(s) Melbourne's reserves
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1936–38 St Kilda 8 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Percy Cheffers (1 June 1913 – 18 October 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2] Before joining St Kilda, Cheffers played with Melbourne's reserves side, winning a VFL seconds premiership in 1935.[3][4]

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 Workshops, ( 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. [5][6]

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.

Notes

  1. ↑ Griffin, Megan (23 April 2012). "Former Saint honoured in ANZAC match". St Kilda Football Club. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ↑ Forward (4 October 1935). "League Seconds". The Age. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Spectator (7 October 1935). "League Seconds". The Argus. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Percy Cheffers Nominal Role Entry Retrieved on 30 April 2016
  6. ↑ | Newspaper article showing VFL players who served in WWII Retrieved on 25 April 2017


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