William Arthur Robbins (4 February 1920 – 8 November 2010) 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 for the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Robbins enlisted in the Australian Army in July 1940 and served for the remainder of World War II. Part of his service was in the 1st Naval Bombardment Group on

HMAS Shropshire HMS ''Shropshire'' was a Royal Navy (RN) heavy cruiser of the ''London'' sub-class of s. She is the only warship to have been named after Shropshire, England. Completed in 1929, ''Shropshire'' served with the RN until 1942, when she was transfer ...

and while serving he played two games for Collingwood in the 1944 VFL season.

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