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Bert Salkeld
Personal information
Full name Albert Ernest Salkeld
Nickname(s) Baron
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

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]

Family[edit]

The son of Robert Salkeld (1833-1897),[2] and Annie Salkeld (1837-1919), née Carey,[3][4] Albert Ernest Salkeld was born at Clunes, Victoria on 24 May 1876.[5]

Education[edit]

Educated at Christian Brothers' College, Victoria Parade,[6] and at the medical faculty of the University of Melbourne, in 1893, to study medicine.[7][8][9] Rather than completing his medical qualification in Melbourne, he went to Scotland, in pursuit of the conjoint medical and surgical qualification available to international medical candidates, known as the "Scottish Triple".

Football[edit]

Essendon Football Club Team (1897)
Salkeld is fifth player from the left, back row.

Melbourne (VFA)[edit]

Recruited from Melbourne University, he played in one game for Melbourne in the VFA in 1895.[10][11]

Essendon (VFA)[edit]

Following a clearance from Melbourne,[12] played 15 games for Essendon in the VFA in 1896.[13]

Essendon (VFL)[edit]

He played for Essendon, as a follower,[14] in the team's first five matches in the new VFL competition in 1897.[15] He was injured, playing for a representative VFL side against a combined Bendigo Football Association team, at Bendigo, on 9 June 1897,[16][17] and did not play again.[18][19]

Surgeon[edit]

He passed the third year examinations in Scotland in 1898,[20] and concluded his Scottish medical studies in 1900.[21] On 14 December 1904 (Register no.2522), Albert Ernest Salkeld, L.R.C.P. Edin. (Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh) 1900, L.R.C.S. Edin. (Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) 1900, L.F.P.S. Glasg. (Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow) 1900, was entered into in the New South Wales Register of Medical Practitioners.[22] For a number of years he was employed as a surgeon at the Northern Hospital at Liverpool, in England.

Civil Surgeon[edit]

He served as a "Civil Surgeon" with the Royal Army Medical Corps,[23] during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). As a "Civil Surgeon" he was on the S.S. Montrose, that left Point Natal on 15 July 1902 repatriating Australian and New Zealand troops bound for Albany, Western Australia, Victoria, and Wellington, New Zealand.[24] Immediately upon his arrival at Melbourne, on 11 August 1902, he was admitted to a private hospital and operated upon for pleural empyema.[25]

Military service[edit]

He later moved to England and enlisted to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I.[26][27]

"Temporary Captain Albert Ernest Salkeld is dismissed the service [on 15 February 1917] by sentence of a general court-martial [conducted at Guildhall, London on 31 January 1917]." — British Medical Journal, 10 March 1917.[28][29]

Death[edit]

He died in London on 26 May 1917.[30] His death was not related to his military service.[31]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 782.
  2. ^ Deaths: Salkeld, The Argus, (Wednesday, 7 July 1897), p. 1.
  3. ^ Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.2747/1862.
  4. ^ Deaths: Salkeld, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 18 November 1919), p. 4.
  5. ^ Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration no.8231/1876.
  6. ^ The Matriculation Examinations, The Advocate, (Saturday, 16 January 1892), p. 16
  7. ^ University of Melbourne: Results of Annual Examination—December, 1893: First Year Medicine, The Australasian, (Saturday, 30 December 1893), p. 1176.
  8. ^ Robberies at the Races, The Age, (Monday, 22 October 1894), p. 3.
  9. ^ University of Melbourne: Results of Annual Examination—December, 1896: Third Year Medicine, The Australasian, (Saturday, 2 January 1897), p.35.
  10. ^ Pennings, Mark (2016), p. 461.
  11. ^ The Melbourne Football Team (Photograph), The Australasian, (Saturday, 22 June 1895), p.1178.
  12. ^ 'Kicker-O', "Along the Wings: Permits Granted", The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 1 May 1896), p. 3.
  13. ^ Pennings, Mark (2016), pp. 522, 523, 526.
  14. ^ Football Premiers for 1897— Essendon Football Team and Office-Bearers, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 25 September 1897), p.12.
  15. ^ Maplestone (1996), p. 50.
  16. ^ Football: Victorian Football League v. Bendigo Association, The Bendigo Independent, (Thursday, 10 June 1897), p. 3.
  17. ^ Snap Shots, The Sportsman, (Tuesday, 15 June 1897), p.6.
  18. ^ The Essendon Footballers: The League Premiers, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 25 September 1897), p.13.
  19. ^ Essendon Football Club, The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter, (Thursday, 31 March 1898), p. 3.
  20. ^ "Universities and Colleges: Conjoint Board in Scotland", The British Medical Journal, (19 November 1898), p. 1595. JSTOR 20256823
  21. ^ Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (Examination Results): Final Examination, Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol.6., No.5, (May 1900), p. 458.
  22. ^ Register of Medical Practitioners for 1905, Supplement to the Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales, No.1, (Tuesday, 3 January 1905, p. 25; it is significant that here, and also in all of his subsequent NSW listings, even though he was "registered", no address (either in NSW or elsewhere) was ever supplied.
  23. ^ For an explanation of the history, recruitment, rank, duties, and obligations of the "civil surgeons", see: Wilson, Edmund Monkhouse, "The Special Reserve, Royal Army Medical Corps", The British Medical Journal, 1(2567), (Saturday, 12 March 1910), pp. 645–647.
  24. ^ The Army in South Africa: Australian Contingents Returning Home, The Times, (Friday, 18 July 1902), p. 9.
  25. ^ Two More Troopers Dead: Condition of the Patients in Hospital, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 12 August 1902), p. 6.
  26. ^ "Naval and Military Appointments: Army Medical Services: Royal Army Medical Corps: To be temporary Lieutenants: Albert Ernest Salkeld", Supplement to the British Medical Journal, (Saturday, 12 December 1914), p. 283. JSTOR 25312085
  27. ^ "Naval and Military Appointments: Army Medical Service: Royal Army Medical Corps: Temporary Lieutenants to be Temporary Captains: Albert Ernest Salkeld", Supplement to the British Medical Journal, (Saturday, 18 December 1915), p. 227. JSTOR 25315599
  28. ^ "Naval and Military Appointments: Army Medical Services: Royal Army Medical Corps", Supplement to the British Medical Journal, (Saturday, 10 March 1917), p. 47.
  29. ^ Army Medical Services: R.A.M.C., The London Gazette, (27 February 1917), p.2017.
  30. ^ Deaths: Salkeld, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 29 May 1917), p. 6: note that the date of death (23 May 1917) in the death notice is incorrect, the probate documents clearly show 26 May 1917.
  31. ^ Cullen (2015), p. 210.

References[edit]

  • Cullen, Barbara (2015), Harder than Football: League Players at War, Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-9923791-4-8
  • 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
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
  • Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing. ISBN 978-0-646-93604-8

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