title: Reg Peterson
text: # Reg Peterson
  
  Reginald Lochiel Peterson (16 August 1907 – 23 May 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Henry Christian Peterson (1872-1939), and Jessie Peterson (1877-1943), née MacKenzie, Reginald Lochiel Peterson was born at Unley, South Australia on 16 August 1907.
  
  He married Joyce Esmerald Morris (1916-1979) in 1940.
  
  ## Military service
  
  Peterson later served in the Australian Army during World War II. He was a prisoner of war in Malaya.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at the Repatriation General Hospital in Heidelberg, Victoria on 23 May 1961.
  
  