page_title: George Mettam
section_title: Club & state rowing
hierarchical_section_title: George Mettam / Club & state rowing
caption_attribution_description: English: The AIF VIII of Leichhardt Rowing Club, Australia. Royal Henley Peace Regatta held on July 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1919.
context_page_description: George William M
  ettam was an Australian artilleryman who saw active service in WWI. Pre and post WWI he was a Western Australian state representative rower. At war's end he rowed in the AIF #1 eight to victory at the 1919 Henley Peace Regatta and brought the King's Cup to Australia.
context_section_description: Mettam was born in Wollongong, New South Wales but raised in Perth, Western Australia. His club rowing was from the West Australian Rowing Club. In 1913 and 1914 he was selected at six in the Western Australian representative men's eights which competed for the Interstate eight-oared championship at the Australian Interstate Regatta. He trained as an accountant with the Agricultural Bank (WA) before the war. 
  After the war he returned to the West Australian Rowing Club and he was again selected at seven in the West Australian men's eight in 1920 when Interstate eight-oared championships recommenced, now racing for the same King's Cup he had won at Henley.  He again competed in West Australian King's Cup eights in 1922 and 1923.
  George's brother Arthur, a winner of the Military Medal also rowed in the West Australian representative eights of 1913 and 1923.
caption: AIF #1 VIII 1919 Henley Peace Regatta : (rear) Disher, Mettam, Hauenstein, Lt. Gen Hobbs, Middleton, Scott, McGill, (front) Robb, Smedley, House.
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