Ormond William Pleasents (10 November 1882 – 30 September 1946) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with Collingwood in the

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(VFL). He had a distinguished military career in

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, and was awarded the

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for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Angres, on 5th November 1918". He died in Margate, Kent in 1946.

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