Terry Cashion

Terry was born to parents Albert and Mary Cashion (née Clements) in April 1921 when the family lived in Goulburn Street, North Hobart.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23495635 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Mercury |volume=CXIV |issue=16,050 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=12 April 1921 |accessdate=19 June 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Cashion first began to come under notice as a player during his junior career with Buckingham.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25554083 |title=YOUNG FOOTBALLERS LEAP HIGH PREMIERSHIP TO MACALBURN |newspaper=The Mercury |volume=CXLIX |issue=21,159 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=19 September 1938 |accessdate=19 June 2022 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219416097 |title=New Town Secure Meritorious 5 Pt. Win Over Cananore |newspaper=Human Voice |volume=12 |issue=20 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=20 May 1939 |accessdate=18 June 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

A rover, he had started his senior career with New Town in the TANFL in 1939 and played there until the end of the 1941 season. After time in the army during World War Two he returned to the league in 1947 where he played with Clarence. In the 1947 Hobart Carnival he made his debut for the Tasmanian interstate team and won the Stancombe Trophy. He won the trophy again at the 1950 Brisbane Carnival and also became the only Tasmanian player to have won a Tassie Medal.

He had a stint at Longford from 1948 to 1951 where he won the NTFA best and fairest Tasman Shields Trophy three times. In 1948 Cashion tied with Harry Styles for the award.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52646441 |title=Tie in Shields Trophy: 4th Since 1925. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=24 August 1948 |accessdate=23 October 2011 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} He won it outright in 1950,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52786770 |title=TASMAN SHIELDS TROPHY TO TERRY CASHION. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=12 September 1950 |accessdate=23 October 2011 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}} and again tied for the award in 1951, this time with Darrel Crosswell.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52879720 |title=TIED FOR TROPHY. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=26 May 1952 |accessdate=23 October 2011 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Cashion then returned to the TFL with Sandy Bay where he won a William Leitch Medal in 1953,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69490625 |title=CASHION WINS LEITCH MEDAL. |newspaper=The Advocate |location=Burnie, Tasmania |date=22 September 1953 |accessdate=23 October 2011 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}} before retiring at the end of the season having played 193 club and representative games. Cashion won a total of seven best and fairest awards at his various Tasmanian clubs.

Cashion moved to Victoria in 1941 to enlist in the Citizen's Military Forces, the predecessor to the Army Reserve. St Kilda originally approached him to play for them, but he refused their terms. Ex Richmond player Eric Zschech who had moved to Tasmania, tried to set up a deal with Richmond. In the meantime Cashion had received an offer from South Melbourne, but Zscech told him not to sign until he had heard from Richmond. After waiting three days with no word from the club, he accepted South Melbourne's offer. Only to find a letter waiting for him from Richmond at his accommodation.

In 1942, he would play five games for South Melbourne, kicking five goals, before injuring his knee in the Round 5 game against Carlton, bringing his VFL career to an end.{{cite web | url=https://pathartnett.net.au/pat_history/terry-cashion/ | title=Terry Cashion – Tasmanian Football HOF ICON & Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee }}

He would enlist in the permanent military in August 1942. Serving largely in Australia as a Tank driver. He would again injure his knee in a service football game in Cairns in September 1944. Cashion would see combat in the Battle of Balikpapan in July 1945, before returning to Australia in 1946.{{cite web | url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=6062760&isAv=N | title=Session expired | RecordSearch | National Archives of Australia }}{{cite web | url=https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=489241&c=WW2 | title=DVA's Nominal Rolls }}

In day-to-day life after returning to Tasmania he had a career as a carpenter involved in the house building trade.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52632447 |title=Dissension at Clarence? |newspaper=The Examiner (Tasmania) |volume=CVII |issue=22 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=8 April 1948 |accessdate=19 June 2022 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In June 2004, he was selected as a rover in Tasmania's official 'Team of the Century' and in 2009 was inducted as an icon in the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.{{cite web | url=https://afltashalloffame.com.au/tasicons/45-terry-cashion/ | title=45. Terry Cashion | AFL Tasmania Hall of Fame }}

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