Tommy Worle

Tommy Worle was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in action in World War I.

Tommy Worle
Worle in 1907
Personal information
Full name Thomas Henry Worle
Date of birth (1885-01-21)21 January 1885
Place of birth Collingwood, Victoria
Date of death 31 July 1917(1917-07-31) (aged 32)
Place of death Armentières, France
Original team(s) Abbotsford
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1907 Collingwood 3 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1907.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

One of five children, the son of Thomas Worle and Eliza Worle, née Dennis, he was born on 21 January 1885. His brother, Len Worle (1889-1948) played for Essendon. He married Elsie Maud Courtis in 1912; his brother-in-law, Harry Courtis, was killed in action on 20 May 1915.[1]

Football

Collingwood

He played three games for the Collingwood First XVIII in 1907.

Brunswick

He was cleared from Collingwood, where he had been playing in the Reserves during the 1908 season, to Brunswick (VFA) in 1909.[2]

Collingwood District Football Club

In April 1910, he was cleared from Brunswick to play for the Collingwood District Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association.[3][4]

Alphington

In 1914 he was playing for his local team, Alphington, in the Heidelberg District Football League.[5] He played in both 1914 and 1915.[6]

Military

He enlisted in the First AIF in January 1916.[7][8]

See also
  • List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

Footnotes
  1. Roll of Honour, Private Harry Courtis (954), Australian War Memorial.
  2. Victorian League: Permit Business, The Age, (Thursday, 22 April 1909), p.10.
  3. Junior Clubs: Metropolitan Association, The Argus, (Saturday, 30 April 1910), p.17.
  4. Metropolitan Association, The Argus, (Monday, 25 July 1910), p.5.
  5. Fairfield v. Alphington, Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle, (Saturday, 9 May 1914), p.3.
  6. Alphington Football Club, Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle, (Saturday, 1 May 1915), p.2; Football: Goal Kickers, Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle, (Saturday, 7 August 1915), p.2.
  7. Our Roll of Honor, Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle, (Saturday, 6 May 1916), p.4.
  8. Fallen Northcote Soldiers, The Northcote Leader,(Saturday, 12 January 1918), p.2.

Sources
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