Ernie Foo | |
Fullname: | Ernest Arthur Foo |
Birth Date: | 30 July 1891 |
Birth Place: | Fitzroy, Victoria |
Death Place: | Caulfield, Victoria |
Originalteam: | YMCA Sydney / Wesley College |
Statsend: | 1914 |
Years1: | 1914 |
Games Goals1: | 4 (2) |
Ernest Arthur Foo (30 July 1891 – 27 February 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of Thomas Foo and Mary Jane Williams (d. 1917),[2] Ernest Arthur Foo was born in Fitzroy on 30 July 1891. He married Olive Ida Wise in 1914. They were divorced in 1920.[3] [4] He married Lily Edna Hebditch in 1929.
Foo fought in World War I—having enlisting under the anglicised name "Ernest Arthur Ford"—serving in France in the latter stages of the war.[5]
He died on 27 February 1934 at the Caulfield Military Hospital.[6]