Roy Baldwin (footballer)

Royston William Baldwin OAM (28 July 1927 – 24 August 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Roy Baldwin
Personal information
Full name Royston William Baldwin
Date of birth (1927-07-28)28 July 1927
Place of birth Mildura, Victoria
Date of death 24 August 2016(2016-08-24) (aged 89)[1]
Original team(s) Mitcham
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1944–45, 1948–50 Hawthorn 41 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Baldwin enlisted in August 1945, two weeks after his 18th birthday, and served until October 1947, spending 18 months overseas in New Britain.[3]

In 1982 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "services to sport in the fields of cricket and Australian rules football."[4]

Notes
  1. "Tributes:Royston William Baldwin". Herald Sun.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
  4. "BALDWIN, Royston William". Australian Government.


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