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Joe Ashdown
Personal information
Full name Joe Ashdown
Date of birth (1922-12-30)30 December 1922
Place of birth Toorak, Victoria
Date of death 29 August 1982(1982-08-29) (aged 59)
Original team(s) Glen Iris
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946 St Kilda 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Joseph Charles Ashdown (30 December 1922 – 29 August 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Personal life

Ashdown served as a leading aircraftman in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "World War Two Service". Australian Government – Department of Veteran's Affairs. Retrieved 15 January 2021.