Graham Dunscombe

Graham Dunscombe (7 July 1924 – 13 September 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Graham Dunscombe
Personal information
Full name Graham Dunscombe
Date of birth (1924-07-07)7 July 1924
Place of birth Thornbury, Victoria
Date of death 13 September 2020(2020-09-13) (aged 96)[1]
Original team(s) Sandringham
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946–47 Sandringham (VFA) 3 (0)
1947 North Melbourne 5 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Charles Ernest Kingsman Dunscombe (1891–1978),[2][3] and Rose Susannah Dunscombe (1892–1984), née Graham, Graham Dunscombe was born at Thornbury, Victoria on 7 July 1924.[4]

He married Phyllis Ida "Peggy" Stewart in 1954, and they had two children, Roger, and Pamela.[5][6][7]

Military service

Prior to his football career, Dunscombe served in Papua New Guinea with the Australian Army during World War II.[8]

Football

Originally from Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Sandringham, Dunscombe made five appearances for North Melbourne in the 1947 VFL season before returning to the VFA.

He coached Moorabbin to the VFA premiership in 1963, after replacing Bob Wilkie as coach mid-season. From 1965 to 1967, Dunscombe coached VFA club Prahran, taking them to a Division 2 premiership in 1966; then from 1968 to 1968 coached the VFA's Mordialloc.[9]

Footnotes
  1. "Death notices". The Age. 15 September 2020.
  2. Sapper Charles Ernest Dunscombe (21102), The AIF Project, UNSW Australia.
  3. World War One Service Record: Sapper Charles Ernest Dunscombe (21102), National Archives of Australia.
  4. Births: Dunscombe, The Age, (Saturday, 12 July 1924), p.5.
  5. Dunscombe, Peggy, "Travelling with Children", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 3 August 1966), pp.38-39.
  6. Dunscombe, Peggy, "An Asian Walkabout—Taking the Children", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 1 November 1966), pp.31-32.
  7. Dunscombe, Peggy, "Simple, Grand Sicily", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 25 January 1967), pp.60-61.
  8. World War Two Nominal Roll.
  9. Fiddian, Marc (2013). The VFA – A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877 – 1995. Melbourne Sports Books.

References
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