Leo Hillis
FullnameLeo Kelvin Hillis
Birth date12 January 1920
Birth placeThomastown, Victoria
Death date31 October 2007 (aged 87)
Height180 cm
Weight76 kg
Statsend1944
Years 11939, 1944
Games goals 15 (0)

Leo Kelvin Hillis (12 January 1920 – 31 October 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

After his football career, Hillis enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy, initially serving as a radio electrician on a range of ships and rising through the ranks to the level of a RAN Commander at the point of his discharge in March 1970.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897. 10th ed. Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 395. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.