The son of Charles Ernest Kingsman Dunscombe (1891–1978),[2][3] and Rose Susannah Dunscombe (1892–1984), née Graham, Graham Dunscombe was born at Thornbury, Victoria on 7 July 1924.[4]
He married Phyllis Ida "Peggy" Stewart in 1954, and they had two children, Roger, and Pamela.[5][6][7]
Military service
Prior to his football career, Dunscombe served in Papua New Guinea with the Australian Army during World War II.[8]
He coached Moorabbin to the VFA premiership in 1963, after replacing Bob Wilkie as coach mid-season. From 1965 to 1967, Dunscombe coached VFA club Prahran, taking them to a Division 2 premiership in 1966; then from 1968 to 1968 coached the VFA's Mordialloc.[9]
^Dunscombe, Peggy, "Travelling with Children", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 3 August 1966), pp.38-39.
^Dunscombe, Peggy, "An Asian Walkabout—Taking the Children", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 1 November 1966), pp.31[permanent dead link]-32.
^Dunscombe, Peggy, "Simple, Grand Sicily", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 25 January 1967), pp.60-61.