TODAY the Port Adelaide Football Club joins the rest of Australia in remembering those who died while serving in the nation's armed forces during wartime.

Like many football clubs, Port Adelaide saw many players conscripted or enlist for service during significant conflicts throughout the 20th century.

Many returned from battle, while others died during their service for our nation.

On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we will remember them.

Lest We Forget.

Known Port Adelaide players and officials to die as a result of wartime service

World War I


CPL William Irvin Boon
31 Battery 8th Brigade Australian Field Artillery
Australian Army
Died: 24 April 1918 France
Killed in Action
26 years old
Place of association: Woodville South Australia
Bur. Bonnay Communal Cemetery Extension, France

CSM Joseph Charles Watson
10th Batallion (Infantry)
Australian Army
Died: 12 May 1917 France
Died of wounds
Place of association: Cheltenham South Australia
Bur. Grevillers British Cemetery France

World War II

LT Lloyd Rudd
2/27th Battalion (Infantry)
Australian Army
Died 14 June 1941 Syria
Killed in action
Bur. Unknown

LAC Halcombe George Brock
1 Service Flying Training School Point Cook
Royal Australian Airforce
Died: 2 August 1941, You Yangs Victoria
Died in Accident
Bur. Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria.

LT Maxwell George Carmichael
27th Batallion
Australian Army
Died: 2 July 1945, Bougainville Island
Killed in Action
Bur. Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG

PTE Christopher Isaac Johnston
2/16th Battalion (Infantry)
Australian Army
Died 15 December 1943 New Guinea
Died of Illness
Bur. Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG

CPL George Urban Quinn
2/24th Battalion (Infantry)
Australian Army
Died: 22 July 1942 Egypt
Killed in action
Bur. Alamein Memorial Egypt

PTE John Samuel Wade
2/27th Battalion (Infantry)
Australian Army
Died: 11 June 1941 Syria
Killed in action
Bur. Sidon War cemetery, Lebanon

Vietnam War

L CPL Peter Allan Chant
9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Australian Army
Died: 14 February 1969 South Vietnam
Killed in action
Bur. Centennial Park, Adelaide