Curtis Reid (footballer)


Curtis Arthur Reid was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

Family

The son of wine maker and cricketer, Curtis Alexander Reid, and Sophia Louisa Reid, née Dight, Curtis Arthur Reid was born at his father's Tarrawingee vineyard on 25 March 1876.
He married Mary Elizabeth "Bessie" Tullidge, in Perth, on 28 November 1904.

Education

Trained as a surveyor, he was admitted to the Queensland Institute of Surveyors in 1907.

Football

Melbourne (VFL)

Cleared to Melbourne from the Rovers Football Club in May 1899.

East Fremantle (WAFL)

He was granted a clearance to East Fremantle in July 1903.

Death

He died at the Charleville Hospital in Queensland on 12 May 1912, of "typhoid fever accelerated by heart failure", having "become ill while surveying the Crown lands at Nebine Creek".