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Hugh Norman Coventry (8 April 1922 – 21 July 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Sydney Alfred Coventry (1899-1976),[1] and Gladys Eileen Coventry (1901-1987), née Trevaskis, Hugh Norman Coventry was born at Clifton Hill on 8 April 1922.

He was the nephew of Gordon Coventry, and was named after another uncle, Hugh Norman "Oak" Coventry (1895-1916), who was (posthumously) mentioned in dispatches for "gallant devotion to duty as volunteer stretcher bearer, carrying the wounded" on 9 August 1916,[2] and had been killed in action while serving with the First AIF in Pozieres,[3][4][5][6]

He married Beth Gradwell at St John's Cathedral in Brisbane on 4 September 1945.[7][8]

Collingwood (VFL)

He was cleared from Ivanhoe Amateur Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) to Collingwood on 10 June 1940.[9][10]

Military service

His career was interrupted by World War 2 after playing on the half-forward flank in Collingwood's 1940 Reserves Semi-Final team,[11] and making his debut at 19 in 1941. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Flight Lieutenant.[12]

Wycheproof (NCFL)

In 1952 he was the captain-coach of the Wycheproof Football Club in the North Central Football League (NCFL).[13]

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