Harry Cordner
Personal information
Full name Henry Cordner
Date of birth (1885-06-17)17 June 1885
Place of birth Bendigo, Victoria
Date of death 14 November 1943(1943-11-14) (aged 58)
Place of death Hobart
Original team(s) Melbourne Grammar
Height 6 ft (183 cm)
Weight 12 st 5 lb (173 lb; 78 kg)
Position(s) centre
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1903–05 Melbourne 11 (16)
1908–09 University 29 (7)
Total 40 (23)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Henry Cordner (17 June 1885 – 14 November 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with both the Melbourne Football Club and the Melbourne University Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

University VFL Team: 23 May 1908:
H. Cordner, third from right, middle row.

Family

The son of Edward James Cordner, and Helen Cordner, née Rae, Henry Cordner was born in Bendigo on 17 June 1885.[1] He died in Hobart on 14 November 1943.[2][3]

Harry's brother Ted Cordner, and his cousins Alan Cordner and "Larry" Cordner, also played senior VFL football. Harry is the uncle of the Cordners – Don, Denis, Ted and John – who played for Melbourne in the 1940s.

Education

Henry entered into residence at Trinity College, Melbourne in 1904, graduating with a M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Melbourne in 1909.

Football

He played VFL football for both Melbourne and University.[4]

Military service

Overseas at the time that war broke out, Dr. Henry Cordner was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, on 16 August 1914,[5] promoted to captain on 16 August 1916,[6] and served in France.[7]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Birth: Cordner, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Thursday, 18 June 1885), p.2.
  2. ^ Deaths: Cordner, The Argus, (Tuesday, 16 November 1943), p.2; Deaths: Cordner, The (Hobart) Mercury, (Monday, 15 November 1943), p.8.
  3. ^ Obituary: Dr Henry Cordner, The (Hobart) Mercury, (Monday, 15 November 1943), p.4.
  4. ^ H. Cordner, The Argus, (Monday, 27 September 1909), p.7.
  5. ^ The London Gazette, 28 August 1914, p.6798.
  6. ^ The London Gazette, 7 September 1915, p.8874.
  7. ^ The Argus, 29 August 1914.

References

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