Stan Reid

Stan Reid
Personal information
Full name Stanley Spencer Reid
Date of birth 12 July 1872
Place of birth Swan Hill, Victoria
Date of death 29 June 1901(1901-06-29) (aged 28)
Place of death Middel-Kraal, South Africa
Original team(s) Fitzroy (VFA)
Debut Round 4, 1897, Fitzroy vs. Essendon, at Brunswick Street Oval
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897–1898 Fitzroy 24 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1898.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Stanley Spencer Reid (12 July 1872 – 29 June 1901) was an Australian rules footballer with the Fitzroy Football Club from 1894 to 1898.

Soon after his retirement from VFL football, he became an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church.

He also, later, became a member of the Imperial Forces in the Anglo-Boer War, firstly as a trooper in the Second Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent (2WAMI) in 1900, and then as a commissioned officer in the Sixth Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent (6WAMI) in 1901.[1]

He died in active service in the Anglo-Boer War.