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ANZAC Honour Roll
The full name, player number and wartime contributions of those who served in WWI and WWII.
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Roosters ANZAC Honour Roll |
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| First Name | Surname | Plyr No. | Roosters Career Span * |
Club Games # |
Notes | Service |
| George | Agar | 144 | 1923 - 1924 | 15 | 1923 Premiership centre | - |
| Keith | Aitken | 410 | 1952 | 2 | - | - |
| Wal | Allan | 287 | 1942 - 1943 | 3 | - | - |
| Vic | Anderson | 345 | 1948 | 2 | - | - |
| Ferris | Ashton | 374 | 1950 - 1956 | 87 | Club legend, Kangaroo tour 1952/53, captain/coach in 1954 | Served on board the destroyer HMAS Quickmatch and served with the British Fleet in the Pacific Ocean |
| Leo | Baggott | 149 | 1924 | 2 | - | - |
| Wal | Bamford | 248 | 1936, 1939 - 1941 |
6 | - | - |
| Fred | Bartley | 125 | 1922 | 2 | ||
| Charlie | Banks | 381 | 1951 - 1952 | 26 | 1951 NSW second row forward | - |
| Doug | Bartlett | 255 | 1938 - 1942 | 39 | 1940 Premiership fullback | - |
| John | Beckley | 244 | 1936 | 6 | - | - |
| Ernie | Berrell | 307 | 1944 | 1 | - | - |
| Brian | Bevan | 278 | 1942, 1946 | 7 | Rugby league superstar, scored 757 tries in 662 games in England | - |
| Bill | Bray | 331 | 1947 - 1948 | 26 | - | - |
| Bill | Brew | 274 | 1940 - 1941 | 12 | 1940 Premiership winger. Died (1941) of meningitis, aged 22 | - |
| Tom | Bruce | 28 | 1909 - 1912 | 29 | Died on October 12, 1917 in Belgium (KIA) | |
| Paddy | Burton | 176 | 1927 | 3 | - | - |
| Hugh | Byrne | 157 | 1925 - 1928, 1930 | 59 | 1928 Australian test winger | - |
| Keith | Coleman | 285 | 1942 | 1 | - | - |
| Herbie | Collins | 60 | 1911 | 4 | 1911 Premiership five eighth, Australian cricket captain (1921 - 1926; 11 tests) | - |
| Lionel | Cooper | 315 | 1945 - 1946 | 27 | 1945 Premiership winger, Roosters Team Of The 20th Century winger | - |
| Harold | Corbett | 56 | 1911 - 1912 | 7 | Died on May 3, 1917 in France (KIA) | |
| George | Court | 226 | 1933 | 2 | - | - |
| Keith | Dallwitz | 313 | 1944 | 8 | - | - |
| Harold 'Mick' | Dalton | 264 | 1939 | 2 | Passed away in New Guinea on September 25, 1943 | |
| Percy | Dermond | 259 | 1938 - 1939, 1941 - 1943, 1946 - 1947 | 51 | - | - |
| Doug | Doney | 301 | 1944, 1946 - 1947 |
8 | - | - |
| Tom | Dowling | 224 | 1933 - 1937 | 67 | 1935, 1936 and 1937 Premiership fullback | - |
| Dick | Dunn | 253 | 1938 - 1947 | 134 | 1940 and 1945 premiership winner. Roosters Hall Of Fame inductee | - |
| Bill | Dyer | 186 | 1928 - 1933 | 16 | - | - |
| Ken | Foster | 324 | 1945 | 4 | 1945 Premiership winger | - |
| Ray | Gillam | 208 | 1931 | 2 | - | - |
| Ernest | Gowenlock | 68 | 1913 | 2 | Died of wounds inflicted at Gueudecourt, France, April 10 1918, aged 27 | |
| Eddie | Griffiths | 29 | 1909 - 1913 | 47 | 1911 and 1912 Premiership forward | A veteran of WWI and a member of an Australian artillery unit who served in Egypt and Gallipoli |
| Jack | Guinery | 216 | 1932 - 1933 | 5 | - | - |
| George | Hall | 168 | 1926 - 1927 | 9 | - | - |
| Bill | Halloway | 243 | 1935 | 1 | - | - |
| Bob | Halloway | 228 | 1933 | 8 | - | - |
| Noel | Hollingdale | 256 | 1938 - 1942 | 55 | 1940 Premiership hooker | - |
| Johnny | Hunter | 316 | 1945 - 1946 | 21 | 1945 Premiership centre | - |
| Ken | Hunter | 354 | 1949 - 1954 | 56 | - | - |
| Tommy | Kaine | 281 | 1942 - 1944, 1946 - 1947, 1952 - 1953 | 44 | - | |
| Henry | Keane | 97 | 1918 | 9 | - | - |
| Vernon | Kennelly | 140 | 1923 | 1 | - | - |
| Maurie | Kilkeary | 271 | 1940 | 1 | - | - |
| Theo | Lang | 238 | 1934 | 1 | - | - |
| Sel | Lisle | 273 | 1940 - 1947 | 71 | 1940 and 1945 Premiership half back, NSW representative 1946 | Enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 as a gunner, discharged in April 1945 |
| Ted | Levy | 340 | 1947 - 1948 | 17 | - | - |
| Jack | McCarthy | 254 | 1938 | 10 | ||
| Matt | McCoy | 321 | 1945 | 1 | Served in the Pacific as an anti-artillery gunner during WWII | |
| Wally | McDonald | 370 | 1950 | 16 | - | |
| George | McGee | 163 | 1926 - 1927 | 8 | - | - |
| Kevin | McLean | 269 | 1940 - 1942 | 10 | - | - |
| Ross | McKinnon | 239 | 1935 - 1938 | 23 | 1936 Premiership centre, 8 tests for Australia (1935-1938) | - |
| Fred | May | 268 | 1940 - 1941 | 26 | 1940 Premiership five eighth | Died on March 13, 1945 in New Guinea (KIA) |
| Billy | Morris | 355 | 1949 | 6 | - | |
| Horace | Moxon | 154 | 1925 - 1926 | 19 | - | - |
| Claude | Nicholson | 69 | 1911, 1913 - 1915 |
15 | Enlisted in the armed services in 1914 with the 14th field ambulance corp at 2 AGH (Australian Ground Hospital) in Boulogne, France | |
| Ross | Nixon | 314 | 1944 | 1 | - | - |
| Harry | Nobbs | 265 | 1939 - 1940 | 9 | - | - |
| Jim | Norton | 257 | 1938 - 1939 | 20 | - | - |
| Harold | O'Brien | 286 | 1942 - 1944 | 9 | - | - |
| Rod | O'Loan | 240 | 1935 - 1941 | 83 | 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1940 Premiership winger. Scored club record of 7 tries in one match | Ended the war as a major and won an MBE |
| Vince | Olivera | 164 | 1926 | 5 | - | - |
| Jack | Parker | 247 | 1936 | |||
| Laurie | Pickup | 258 | 1938 - 1939 | 8 | - | Enlisted in the RAAF during World War II on 3 June, 1941 |
| Len | Portsmouth | 284 | 1942 - 1944, 1946 | 29 | - | - |
| Ray | Pratt | 323 | 1945 | 17 | 1945 Premiership fullback | - |
| Alan | Quinlivan | 326 | 1946 - 1947 | 7 | - | |
| Laurie | Rafferty | 312 | 1944 | 1 | - | - |
| Fred | Robinson | 227 | 1933 - 1940 | 44 | - | |
| Lee | Rose | 327 | 1946 - 1948 | 28 | - | |
| Allan | Schafer | 311 | 1944 | 5 | - | - |
| Don | Sinclair | 293 | 1943, 1947 - 1948, 1952 - 1954 |
54 | - | - |
| Johnny | Smith | 317 | 1945 - 1946 | 14 | Arm injury prevented him being part of the 1945 Premiership team | - |
| Ray | Stehr | 190 | 1929 - 1942, 1945 - 1946 | 174 | Five time premiership prop (1935, 1936, 1937, 1940 and 1945). Captain in 1940 and 1945. 30 interstate games for NSW and 14 tests for Australia | AIF Warrant Officer in Darwin 1939-1940 |
| Johnno | Stuntz | 13 | 1908 - 1910 | 6 | Scored four tries in the Roosters first ever game in 1908 | Died May 3, 1917 |
| Viv | Thicknesse | 210 | 1932 - 1937 | 74 | 1935, 1936 and 1937 Premiership half back. Captain in 1935 and 1937. 11 interstate games for NSW and 9 tests for Australia | - |
| Bob | Tidyman | 65 | 1913 - 1915 | 36 | 1913 Premiership centre and Australian test centre in 1914 | Joined AIF in December 1915 as a member of the 11th Reinforcements for the 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd Division. Passed away on November 15, 1916 in France. |
| Paul | Tierney | 294 | 1943 - 1949 | 73 | 1945 Premiership centre | - |
| George | Torpy | 191 | 1929 | 16 | - | |
| Tom | Trotter | 187 | 1928 | 6 | - | - |
| Cliff | Tye | 283 | 1942 | 4 | - | - |
| Jack ^ | Watkins | 66 | 1913 - 1916, 1919 - 1924, 1926 | 112 | 1913 and 1923 Premiership forward. 8 intersate matches for NSW and 8 tests for Australia | - |
| Eddie | White | 53 | 1910 - 1914 | 35 | 1911 and 1912 Premiership winger, brother of Percy White. NSW winger. | Veteran of the Boer War as well as 1st and 2nd AIF |
| Percy | White | 23 | 1908 - 1916 | 89 | 1912 and 1913 Premiership forward, brother of Eddie White | Died of wounds April 24, 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux, aged 30 |
| Jack | Williams | 296 | 1943 - 1944, 1946 | 6 | ||
| * Denotes Roosters first grade career span # Denotes first grade games for the Roosters ^ Jack 'Bluey' Watkins |
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