Reg Peterson

Reg Peterson
Personal information
Full name	Reginald Lochiel Peterson
Date of birth	(1907-08-16)16 August 1907
Place of birth	Unley, South Australia
Date of death	23 May 1961(1961-05-23) (aged 53)
Place of death	Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s)	Carlton reserves
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1929–30	Port Melbourne (VFA)	23 (12)
1930	Brunswick (VFA)	06 0(5)
1930–31	Brighton (VFA)	15 (45)
1931–32	Essendon	20 0(8)
1933	St Kilda	01 0(1)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1933.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Reginald Lochiel Peterson (16 August 1907 – 23 May 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of Henry Christian Peterson (1872-1939),^[2] and Jessie Peterson (1877-1943), née MacKenzie,^[3] Reginald Lochiel Peterson was born at Unley, South Australia on 16 August 1907.

He married Joyce Esmerald Morris (1916-1979) in 1940.^[4]

They had three sons, John (1941), Laurence (1946), and William (1951). John became a major bookseller, Laurence an artist, and Bill a Health and Safety consultant.

Military service

Peterson later served in the Australian Army during World War II.^[5] He was captured in the fall of Singapore and remained a prisoner of war in Changi until the end of the war.

Death

He died at the Repatriation General Hospital in Heidelberg, Victoria on 23 May 1961.^[6]

Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.701.
2. Deaths: Peterson, The Age, (Tuesday, 9 May 1939), p.1.
3. Deaths: Peterson, The Argus, (Friday, 4 June 1943), p.2.
4. Women Fined £75 and £25 -- Bets Taken, The Herald, (Thursday, 8 June 1944), p.7.
5. Nominal Roll.
6. Deaths: Peterson, The Age, (Wednesday, 24 May 1961), p.24.

References

• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
• "World War Two Nominal Roll: Sergeant Reginald Lochiel Peterson (VX39288)". Department of Veterans' Affairs.
• B883, VX39288: World War Two Service Record: Sergeant Reginald Lochiel Peterson (VX39288), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• Reg Peterson at AustralianFootball.com
• Reg Peterson's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Reg Peterson's playing statistics from The VFA Project