heightweight death_place death_date years birth_place clubs statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
184cm / 81 kg burma-siam railway , burma 11 september 1943 1929-1932 1933 '' ` total - '' ' deniliquin footscray st kilda 1933 eaglehawk 3 december 1909 bill downie
 bill downie
bill downie

william downie -lrb- 4 december 1908 -- 11 september 1943 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with footscray and st kilda in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
downie played as a ruckman and represented footscray 54 times before finishing off his vfl career with a year at st kilda .
he was then picked up by northcote in the victorian football association -lrb- vfa -rrb- and was a member of their 1937 premiership side .
he served his country in world war ii and was killed by a japanese guard in a prisoner of war camp .
