Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Albert Otto Peters (8 August 1908 – 13 June 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Nickname \"Snow\" or \"Snowy\", for his very fair hair, Peters was born in St Arnaud, Victoria. In 1918 parents Carl Erich Theodore Otto Peters (1872-1950) and Harriet Cordelia Bond (1874-1970) left St Arnaud, where Eric drove engines at the local Burkes Flat gold mine, with their 8 surviving children, for the Wonthaggi coal mines. Both Eric and Harriet are interred in Wonthaggi Cemetery with their daughter Freda Asquith (1914-1991). Their youngest child, Helen (Nellie) Sleeman (1917-2014) a lifelong Wonthaggi resident, is survived by her second son Kit, the family historian (30 October 2015). Bert trained as a primary school teacher, with known appointments at Tooradin North (1932-1936 headmaster) and Red Hill South (1937-1941 headmaster) the latter where he first met Fred Volk, a fellow teacher and gifted footballer and cricketer. Fred coached Sorrento Football Club (1936) and probably persuaded Bert to apply for the same position in 1937. Bert met and married Ruby Anzac Kernot (-1968), the daughter of a Tooradin fishing family. Tooradin's Anglican Christ Church has a separate plaque for them in their memorial garden. To celebrate his wedding Peters bought a brand new Ford 10 sedan. In Wonthaggi's War Memorial gardens stands a flowering gum tree in Peters honour with a white cross underneath. Others are located at Runnymeade UK and the Australian War Memorial Canberra. Around 2000 former Red Hill South student and later Shire of Flinders president Keith Holmes dedicated a plaque to Peters in the Red Hill Consolidate school's Peace Garden. A photo of Peters hangs in the school foyer. Holmes was a member of Peters' Red Hill South School Orchestra classes and has photos of class members who performed on Melbourne radio 3DB on 'Junior Amateur Hour' and won a trophy in a Sorrento talent quest. Peters, a violinist and saxophonist performed with a group of musicians in Wonthaggi."@en }
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- Bert_Peters abstract "Albert Otto Peters (8 August 1908 – 13 June 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Nickname \"Snow\" or \"Snowy\", for his very fair hair, Peters was born in St Arnaud, Victoria. In 1918 parents Carl Erich Theodore Otto Peters (1872-1950) and Harriet Cordelia Bond (1874-1970) left St Arnaud, where Eric drove engines at the local Burkes Flat gold mine, with their 8 surviving children, for the Wonthaggi coal mines. Both Eric and Harriet are interred in Wonthaggi Cemetery with their daughter Freda Asquith (1914-1991). Their youngest child, Helen (Nellie) Sleeman (1917-2014) a lifelong Wonthaggi resident, is survived by her second son Kit, the family historian (30 October 2015). Bert trained as a primary school teacher, with known appointments at Tooradin North (1932-1936 headmaster) and Red Hill South (1937-1941 headmaster) the latter where he first met Fred Volk, a fellow teacher and gifted footballer and cricketer. Fred coached Sorrento Football Club (1936) and probably persuaded Bert to apply for the same position in 1937. Bert met and married Ruby Anzac Kernot (-1968), the daughter of a Tooradin fishing family. Tooradin's Anglican Christ Church has a separate plaque for them in their memorial garden. To celebrate his wedding Peters bought a brand new Ford 10 sedan. In Wonthaggi's War Memorial gardens stands a flowering gum tree in Peters honour with a white cross underneath. Others are located at Runnymeade UK and the Australian War Memorial Canberra. Around 2000 former Red Hill South student and later Shire of Flinders president Keith Holmes dedicated a plaque to Peters in the Red Hill Consolidate school's Peace Garden. A photo of Peters hangs in the school foyer. Holmes was a member of Peters' Red Hill South School Orchestra classes and has photos of class members who performed on Melbourne radio 3DB on 'Junior Amateur Hour' and won a trophy in a Sorrento talent quest. Peters, a violinist and saxophonist performed with a group of musicians in Wonthaggi.".