Wal Gunnyon

Wal Gunnyon
Personal information
Full name	Walter Gunnyon
Date of birth	16 May 1895
Place of birth	Stawell, Victoria
Date of death	27 December 1972 (aged 77)
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1915, 1919-1921 1922-1927	South Fremantle St Kilda Oakleigh	54 (?) 63 (21)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1921	Western Australia	2 (2)

Walter "Wally" Gunnyon (16 May 1895 – 27 December 1972) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League and St Kilda in the VFL in the 1920s.

Playing career

Gunnyon played four seasons with South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League, playing 54 games. He represented Western Australia in the 1921 Perth Carnival.^[1][2]

In 1922 Gunnyon transferred to St Kilda in the VFL going on to play 63 games for the club, the latter games in an unfamiliar defensive role. He left the club for the VFA in 1927 where he joined the newly established Oakleigh.

War service

Gunnyon enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force in November 1915, serving in France.^[3]

References

1. "South Fremantle League Players 1900 - 2010" (PDF). South Fremantle Football Club. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
2. "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INTERSTATE FOOTBALL REPRESENTATIVES 1904 - 2010". West Australian Football Commission. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
3. "Walter Gunnyon – Discovering Anzacs". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

External links

• Wal Gunnyon's statistics from AFL Tables
• Wal Gunnyon's profile from AustralianFootball.com