William Woods (31 August 1890 – ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.971.
Family The son of William Woods, a farmer, and Isabella Woods, née Cornell, William Woods was born at Portarlington, Victoria on 31 August 1890.Note that the Argus football correspondent, "Old Boy" (), (mistakenly) states that he was the brother of the former Geelong footballer, Ike Woods. This is clearly wrong; they each had entirely different parents.
He married Linda Barbara "Mardi" Allen (1889–1991) on 21 August 1915.Portarlington, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 24 August 1915), p.5. They had one child, a daughter.
Military service He enlisted in the First AIF in 1915, served overseas, sustained a gunshot wound to the head in action in France in 1916, and returned to Australia in 1919.
Death He died at Heidelberg, Victoria in 1972.
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World War One Embarkation Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial. World War One Nominal Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial. World War One Service Record: Private William Woods (3654), National Archives of Australia.
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