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Rohan Bewick

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ7359667
Source-derived summary

Rohan Bewick is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Bewick was recruited by the Lions from West Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), a part of the trade deal that sent Jared Brennan to the Gold Coast Suns. He made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2011 AFL season.

He is the son of former footballer Corry Bewick, who also played for West Perth, and the nephew of former Essendon player Darren Bewick. He has an identical twin brother, Shaun, who has played for South Fremantle and West Perth.

Bewick was delisted at the end of the 2018 season.

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“Rohan Bewick” enters the record as australian rules footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rohan, Bewick and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-10-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rohan, Bewick and Australian.
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“Rohan Bewick” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rohan, Bewick and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7359667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Rohan Bewick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.