Early Life
Lewis's father, Jimmy, played first grade rugby league at wing or fullback for Brisbane clubs Wests and Souths. He later became coach of the Wynnum-Manly club. His mother, June, was a Queensland representative netball player. Wally was playing rugby league when he was six years old, usually at Lock forward. In his school days, Lewis also played representative rugby union, touring Europe and Japan with the Australian schoolboys alongside the likes of the Ella brothers and Michael O'Connor in 1977.
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