Roy Porter (footballer)

Roy Porter
Roy Porter
Personal information
Full name	Leslie Roy Porter
Date of birth	24 August 1917
Place of birth	Footscray, Victoria
Date of death	6 February 1998 (aged 80)
Original team(s)	West Footscray
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1937–1940	Footscray
1941, 1945	South Melbourne
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1945.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Leslie Roy Porter (24 August 1917 – 6 February 1998) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of Robert Clyde Porter (1891–1963) and May Elizabeth Porter, nee Johnson (1892–1976), Leslie Roy Porter was born at Footscray in August 1917.

Porter married Nancy Nerrida Mallows in 1941.

Porter served in both the Australian Army^[2] and the Royal Australian Air Force^[3] during World War II.

^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 713. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
^ "World War II Roll: Roy Leslie Porter (Army)". Department of Veterans Affairs.
^ "World War II Roll: Leslie Roy Porter (RAAF)". Department of Veterans Affairs.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1917 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.