Norm Oliver (footballer, Born 1922)
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Norman Leslie Oliver (15 August 1922 – 27 June 1944) was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was also a talented tennis player, and there was a possibility of him being a future
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player.


Family

Son of Harold George Oliver (1893-1968), and Gladys Elizabeth Ann Oliver (1894-1961), née Atherton, Norman Leslie Oliver was born on 15 August 1922.


Military service

Serving as a Flying Officer in the RAAF during World War II, he was killed when his Kittyhawk plane crashed on a beach in New Guinea.Death of Airman-Player, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 3 July 1944) p.9.
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See also

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List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service Since the inception of the Victorian Football League in 1897, many of its players have served in the armed services, including the Anglo–Boer War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War (in which Melbourne's Geoff Collins served as a fi ...


Footnotes


References

*Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
World War Two Nominal Roll: Flying Officer Norman Leslie Oliver (436020).

Roll of Honour: Flying Officer Norman Leslie Oliver (436020), ''Australian War Memorial''.

Roll of Honour Circular: Flying Officer Norman Leslie Oliver (436020), ''Collection of the Australian War Memorial''.

Flying Officer Norman Leslie Oliver (436020), ''Commonwealth War Graves Commission''.


External links

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''Forever Collingwood'': Norm Oliver (1940-1941).
1922 births 1944 deaths Collingwood Football Club players Australian military personnel killed in World War II Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents Royal Australian Air Force officers Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II People educated at Melbourne High School Australian World War II pilots Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Military personnel from Melbourne Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1944 {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub