Alfred Vincent Smith (23 January 1913 – 17 February 1995) 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

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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). Hawthorn granted Smith a clearance to the Brocklesby Football Club, NSW where they finish 3rd in 1937 and 4th in 1938 in the

Albury & District Football League The Albury & District Football League was established at a delegates meeting in Culcairn in 1930 from the following Australian Rules Football clubs - Albury Rovers, Culcairn, Henty and Holbrook and folded after the 1957 football season. History Th ...

with Smith as their captain / coach. Smith was runner up Albury & DFL best and fairest award in 1937 and finished 3rd in the 1938 medal. Smith played with

Sandringham Football Club The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed The Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne which was formed in 1929 and plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL) which was formerly called the Victorian Football Association ...

in 1939 and 1940, prior to enlisting with the AIF in

World War Two World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

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Smith's World War Two Service Record1938 - Brocklesby FC Presentation Night photo
1913 births 1995 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Hawthorn Football Club players Camberwell Football Club players People from Hawthorn, Victoria Military personnel from Melbourne Australian military personnel of World War II {{AFL-bio-1913-stub