title: Tommy Worle
text: # Tommy Worle
  
  Tommy Worle (21 January 1885 — 31 July 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in action, in France, in World War I.
  
  ## Family
  
  One of five children, the son of Thomas Worle (1845-1915), and Eliza Worle (1857-1912), née Dennis, Thomas Henry Worle was born at Collingwood on 21 January 1885. His brother, Leonard Victor Worle (1889-1948) played for Essendon.
  
  He married Elsie Maud Courtis in 1912; his brother-in-law, Harry Courtis, was killed in action on 20 May 1915.
  
  ## Football
  
  ### Collingwood
  
  He played three games for the Collingwood First XVIII in 1907.
  
  ### Brunswick
  
  He was cleared from Collingwood, where he had been playing in the Reserves during the 1908 season, to Brunswick (VFA) in 1909.
  
  ### Collingwood District Football Club
  
  In April 1910, he was cleared from Brunswick to play for the Collingwood District Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association.
  
  ### Alphington
  
  In 1914 he was playing for his local team, Alphington, in the Heidelberg District Football League. He played in both 1914 and 1915.
  
  ## Military service
  
  He enlisted in the First AIF in January 1916.
  
  ## Death
  
  He was killed in action near Armentières, in northern France on 31 July 1917.
  
  