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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
Orm Pleasents
Personal information
Full name Ormond William Pleasents
Date of birth (1882-11-10)10 November 1882
Place of birth Euroa
Date of death 30 September 1946(1946-09-30) (aged 63)
Place of death Margate, Kent
Original team(s) Hawthorn (VMFL)
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1907 Collingwood 1 (0)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1907.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ormond William Pleasents MC (10 November 1882 – 30 September 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

He had a distinguished military career in World War I, and was awarded the Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Angres, on 5th November 1918".

He died in Margate, Kent in 1946.

Notes

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 710. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "Ormond William PLEASENTS". The AIF Project.
  3. National Probate Register, England and Wales. The High Court of Justice in England. 1946. p. 489.

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