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Reg Farrant

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Reg Farrant
Personal information
Full name Reg Farrant
Date of birth (1920-09-09)9 September 1920
Date of death 6 April 2005(2005-04-06) (aged 84)
Original team(s) Cohuna
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1940 Hawthorn 5 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1940.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Reg Farrant (9 September 1920 – 6 April 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force and made the rank of Flying Officer. On August 7 1945 the Beaufighter he was a member of crew was shot down over the island of Borneo. He suffered a leg injury. Aided by his Flight Lt. Vernon Sims the pair received help by local chinese villagers to evade the Japanese soldiers and managed to get to Miri which was an Australian base.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Shot Down in Jungle". Kalgoorlie Miner. 12 September 1945.
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