Edward Absolom (30 August 1875 – 18 January 1927) 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, Soldier and Farmer who played with Collingwood in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL) and served in the

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. Born in Mortlake, Victoria Edward 'Ted' Absolom (also '

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') was one of 16 children born William and Mary Ann Absolom in

Mortlake, Victoria Mortlake is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Hamilton Highway, north-east of Warrnambool. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area and the federal Division of Wannon. At the 2001 census, Mortlake had a pop ...

. After playing 11 games with the Collingwood Football Club in 1900, Absolom enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Kitchener's Fighting Scouts on 18 December 1900 in

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, where he was assigned the regimental number '2' and served 149 days until being medically discharge on 15 May 1901 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia. On return to Australia, Absolom enlisted with the 2nd Australian Commonwealth Horse on 8 January 1902 and returned to Australia in August 1902. To date, Ted Absolom is not commemorated on any war memorials in his home town of Mortlake, Victoria. Ted Absolom died in Coleraine, Victoria on 18 January 1927 and was survived by his wife Emily Ester Absolom.

References

Sources

* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

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* 1875 births 1927 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Mortlake Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub