Rule enlisted in the Australian Army as soon as he turned eighteen and served until May 1946.

[2] He served overseas in both New Guinea and New Britain during his war years.

[3] Rule, a Victorian interstate representative in 1949, was used as both a follower and defender at Melbourne.

[4] In their 1948 premiership team he was the former, while in 1946 he played from the back pocket in a losing Grand Final.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1920s is a stub.