{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Bert Salkeld | image = | fullname = Albert Ernest Salkeld | nickname = Baron | birth_date = {{birth date|1876|05|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Clunes, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1917|05|26|1876|05|24|df=y}} | death_place = St Pancras, London | originalteam = Melbourne (VFA) | height = | weight = | position = | statsend = 1897 | years1 = 1895 | club1 = {{AFL Mel}} (VFA) | games_goals1 = {{0}}1 (0) | years2 = 1896 | club2 = {{AFL Ess}} (VFA) | games_goals2 = 15 (3) | years3 = 1897 | club3 = {{AFL Ess}} | games_goals3 = {{0}}5 (3) | careerhighlights = }} '''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).<ref> Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 782.</ref>
==Family== The son of Robert Salkeld (1833-1897),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Notices - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 7 Jul 1897 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9173664 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1897 |page=1 |language=en}}</ref> and Annie Salkeld (1837-1919), née Carey,<ref>''Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria'' Marriages Registration no.2747/1862.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Notices - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930) - 18 Nov 1919 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239646517 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=18 November 1919 |page=4 |language=en}}</ref> Albert Ernest Salkeld was born at Clunes, Victoria on 24 May 1876.<ref>''Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria'' Births Registration no.8231/1876.</ref>
==Education== Educated at Christian Brothers' College, Victoria Parade,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Intelligence. - |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169278013 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1892 |page=16 |language=en}}</ref> and at the medical faculty of the University of Melbourne, in 1893, to study medicine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. - ANNUAL EXAMINATION.—DECEMBER, 1893. FIRST TEAR ARTS. - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) - 30 Dec 1893 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138112317 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1893 |page=24 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ROBBERIES AT THE RACES. - The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) - 22 Oct 1894 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190024167 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1894 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. - RESULTS OF ANNUAL EXAMINATION-DECEMBER, 1806. - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) - 2 Jan 1897 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139735857 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1897 |page=33 |language=en}}</ref> 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== thumb|250px|Essendon Football Club Team (1897)<br>Salkeld is fifth player from the left, back row. ===Melbourne (VFA)=== Recruited from Melbourne University, he played in one game for Melbourne in the VFA in 1895.<ref>Pennings, Mark (2016), p. 461.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL TEAM. - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) - 22 Jun 1895 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139711374 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1895 |page=26 |language=en}}</ref>
===Essendon (VFA)=== Following a clearance from Melbourne,<ref>{{Cite web |title=ALONG THE WINGS. - PARS ABOUT PLAYERS AND GOSSIPY GLEANINGS. - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 1 May 1896 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241285041 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1896 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref> played 15 games for Essendon in the VFA in 1896.<ref>Pennings, Mark (2016), pp. 522, 523, 526.</ref>
===Essendon (VFL)=== He played for Essendon, as a follower,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954) - 25 Sep 1897 - p12 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/23406767 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref> in the team's first five matches in the new VFL competition in 1897.<ref>Maplestone (1996), p. 50.</ref> He was injured, playing for a representative VFL side against a combined Bendigo Football Association team, at Bendigo, on 9 June 1897,<ref>{{Cite web |title=FOOTBALL. - VICTORIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE V. BENDIGO ASSOCIATION. - The Bendigo Independent (Vic. : 1891 - 1918) - 10 Jun 1897 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article187747975 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1897 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SNAP SHOTS. - Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904) - 15 Jun 1897 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227737322 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1897 |page=6 |language=en}}</ref> and did not play again.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE ESSENDON FOOTBALLERS. - THE LEAGUE PREMIERS. - Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954) - 25 Sep 1897 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221128244 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB. - The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1888 - 1900) - 31 Mar 1898 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article269635135 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=1898 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref>
==Surgeon== He passed the third year examinations in Scotland in 1898,<ref>"Universities and Colleges: Conjoint Board in Scotland", ''The British Medical Journal'', (19 November 1898), p. 1595. {{JSTOR|20256823}}</ref> and concluded his Scottish medical studies in 1900.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/scottishmedical11unkngoog |title=Scottish medical and surgical journal |date=1897 |publisher=Edinburgh : W.F. Clay |others=Harvard University}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |title=REGISTER OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS FOR 1905. - Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001) - 3 Jan 1905 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220952754 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250225062912/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220952754 |archive-date=2025-02-25 |access-date=2025-05-28 |work=Trove |language=en}}</ref> For a number of years he was employed as a surgeon at the Northern Hospital at Liverpool, in England.
===Civil Surgeon=== He served as a "Civil Surgeon" with the Royal Army Medical Corps,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1910-03-12 |title=The Special Reserve, Royal Army Medical Corps |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=1 |issue=2567 |pages=645–647 |issn=0007-1447 |pmc=2330726 |pmid=20764972}}</ref> 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.<ref>The Army in South Africa: Australian Contingents Returning Home, ''The Times'', (Friday, 18 July 1902), p. 9.</ref> Immediately upon his arrival at Melbourne, on 11 August 1902, he was admitted to a private hospital and operated upon for pleural empyema.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TWO MORE TROOPERS DEAD. - CONDITION OF THE PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL. - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930) - 12 Aug 1902 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237596358 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=12 August 1902 |page=6 |language=en}}</ref>
==Military service== He later moved to England and enlisted to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I.<ref>"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}}</ref><ref>"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}}</ref> ::"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.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2348326/pdf/brmedj07091-0041.pdf "Naval and Military Appointments: Army Medical Services: Royal Army Medical Corps", ''Supplement to the British Medical Journal'', (Saturday, 10 March 1917), p. 47.]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Page 2017 {{!}} Issue 29963, 27 February 1917 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29963/page/2017 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}</ref>
==Death== He died in London on 26 May 1917.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Notices - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 29 May 1917 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15712776 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Trove |date=29 May 1917 |page=6 |language=en}}</ref> His death was not related to his military service.<ref>Cullen (2015), p. 210.</ref>
== Notes == {{reflist}}
==References== * 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}} * [https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100083/18/Mark%27s%2BBook%2BVolume%2B4%2Br.pdf 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}}
== External links == * {{AFL Tables|ref=B/Bert_Salkeld.html}} * {{AustralianFootball|ref=bert%2Bsalkeld/932}} * [http://demonwiki.org/Albert+Salkeld Albert Salkeld, at ''Demonwiki''.] * [https://essendonfcpastplayers.com.au/past-player-profiles/listing/salkeld-bert Bert "Baron" Salkeld, at ''Essendon Football Club Past Players''.]
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