title: Bill Dyer (Australian footballer)
text: # Bill Dyer (Australian footballer)
  
  William David Dyer (15 March 1917 – 7 January 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Charles Victor Dyer (1887–1959), and Alice May Dyer (1881–1970), née McHarry, William David Dyer was born at Geelong on 15 March 1917.
  
  He married Leonora Lilian Partridge (1921–1972) in 1944.
  
  ## Military service
  
  He enlisted in the Second AIF on 27 June 1940, and was discharged on 8 October 1945. He saw active service in the Middle East and in New Guinea.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 7 January 1957.
  
  