Career
Football player
Recruited from the Engineers, he played nine senior games for Essendon, and kicked two goals. His first match was against Geelong at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 25 May 1912 (round 5), in which he played well. His last match was against Street Kilda, at the Junction Oval, on 24 August 1912.
He enlisted in the First AIF, giving his occupation as carpenter, on 24 August 1914.
Captain William George Harvey, Medical Corps, 1st Australian Pioneers, was killed in action on 14 September 1917.