Bert Salkeld

Albert Ernest Salkeld (24 May 1876 – 26 May 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Bert Salkeld
Personal information
Full name Albert Ernest Salkeld
Date of birth (1876-05-24)24 May 1876
Place of birth Clunes, Victoria
Date of death 26 May 1917(1917-05-26) (aged 41)
Place of death St Pancras, London
Original team(s) Melbourne (VFA)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897 Essendon 5 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1897.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

A surgeon by profession, he later moved to England and enlisted to serve in World War I in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died in London in 1917, but this was not related to his military service.[2]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 782. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-9923791-4-8.
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