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Orm Pleasents

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ18641569 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ormond William Pleasents (10 November 1882 – 30 September 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

He had a distinguished military career in World War I, and was awarded the Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Angres, on 5th November 1918".

He died in Margate, Kent in 1946.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1946, 1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pleasents, Australian and rules providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q18641569. The first chronological checks are 1882, 1946 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “Orm Pleasents” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.