What is the name of the Australian Footballer who was a person held in custody by a belligerent power during the armed conflict, World War I?
Billy Stewart (Australian footballer) Billy Stewart (3 August 1884 – 16 April 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Stewart also played for the Victorian team at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, replacing an injured player. He played his last VFL game in a victory against Geelong, before transferring to Prahran in the Victorian Football Association. He would later also play for North Ballarat. Serving for Australia in World War I, he spent time as a Prisoner of war in Germany.
Frank Edwards (British Army soldier) Frank Edwards (29 September 1893–January 1964), also known as The Footballer of Loos, was a British Army soldier in the First World War who served as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, during the Battle of Loos. He is distinguished for leading the London Irish across no man's land to storm enemy trenches kicking a football ahead of the troops. The successful capture of enemy positions that followed earned the London Irish Rifles their second battle honour, "Loos, 1915". The football is still preserved in the regimental museum of the London Irish and to this day the memory of Edwards is commemorated on Loos Sunday.