Australian rules footballer
Orm Pleasents | |||
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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
- 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.
- "Ormond William PLEASENTS". The AIF Project.
- National Probate Register, England and Wales. The High Court of Justice in England. 1946. p. 489.
External links
- Orm Pleasents's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Orm Pleasents's profile at Collingwood Forever
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