Allan Maas

Allan Roy Lindsay Maas (13 July 1922 – 18 June 2014[2]) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3]

Allan Maas
Personal information
Full name Allan Roy Lindsay Maas
Date of birth (1922-07-13)13 July 1922
Place of birth Mildura, Victoria[1]
Date of death 18 June 2014(2014-06-18) (aged 91)
Original team(s) Red Cliffs
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946–1948 North Melbourne 15 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Prior to his football career, Allan Maas served with distinction in World War II. He enlisted in May 1940 and after completing training was sent to the Middle East as part of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion. He broke his right leg in the Battle of Merdjayoun in Lebanon in 1941. Maas returned to Melbourne for rehabilitation in 1942, where he met and subsequently married Mildred Ada Rose Brown, an Army dental nurse, in 1943. He was then sent to fight in New Guinea in January 1944 before returning to Australia later that year.[4]

Allan Maas was subsequently an active member of the Returned Services League (RSL), being elected as a State Councillor from District Board 11 in 1978 where he served until 2003. He also served as Chairman of the District Board during that time. He was awarded a Life Membership of the RSL in March 1971 and then Life Membership with Gold Badge in 1999 for his dedicated service. He was also a Meritorious Service Medal recipient in 1995.[5]

Notes
  1. "World War II Nominal Roll: Allan Roy Lindsay Maas". Department of Veterans Affairs.
  2. "Death Notice". The Age.
  3. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 537. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  4. Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
  5. "Tribute: Allan Roy Lindsay Maas". Herald Sun.
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