Walter Johnston (footballer)

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=November 2018}}

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| name = Walter Johnston

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| fullname = Walter Johnston

| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|01|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kingston

| death_date = {{death date and age|1946|07|18|1884|1|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Ringwood

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| statsend = 1908

| years1 = 1908

| club1 = Richmond

| games_goals1 =1 (0)

| games_goalstotal = 1 (0)

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Walter Johnston (17 January 1884 – 18 July 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played one game for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1908.

Until 2018, this game had been incorrectly allocated to Alex Johnston.{{Cite news|url=http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-11-30/discovery-of-a-new-tiger-of-old|title=Discovery of a new Tiger of Old|last=Bartlett|first=Rhett|date=2 December 2018|work=richmondfc.com.au|access-date=2 December 2018|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327040120/https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-11-30/discovery-of-a-new-tiger-of-old|url-status=live}}

Johnston served in the Australian army during World War II, despite being 56 years old by falsifying his birth day to 1 January 1896.{{cite web |last=Department of Veterans' Affairs |title=World War Two Nominal Rolls: Service Record |url=https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=556516&c=WW2 |url-status=live |accessdate=2 November 2023 |website= |publisher=Government of Australia |language=en |archive-date=22 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322072844/https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=556516&c=WW2 }}