Alton Harry Mort (24 March 1906 – 23 December 1981) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Hawthorn
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in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
He later served in the RAAF in World War II.
His son,
Ian Mort
Ian Carnegie Mort (4 April 1937 – 19 January 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the early 1960s.
The son of former Hawthorn player Harry Mort
Alton Harry Mort (24 March 1906 – 23 Decemb ...
played with Hawthorn between 1960 and 1964.
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1906 births
1981 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Hawthorn Football Club players
Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II
Australian rules footballers from Adelaide
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