Sydney Weatherlake was born in London in 1889.
In Adelaide in 1914 he worked as a tram conductor for the Municipal Tramways Trust, and played for the newly formed Tramways soccer club. Tramways were one of only five teams to return to the SABFA competitions in 1919.
He enlisted in the AIF at Oaklands on 10th December 1914, and arrived at Gallipoli in May with the 4th reinforcements for the 10th Battalion. Struck down with a bad dose of influenza he was hospitalized, but reached the front in France just in time to be shot in the forearm at Pozieres in July 1916. The rest of Weatherlake’s war was spent mainly at base depots in England.
He married Mabel Davies at Fulham on Christmas Day 1916 and was returned to Australia in February 1920. Sydney Weatherlake died in Adelaide in 1938.