[6] Whilst serving in the First AIF, he married Margaret Constance Pruen, at Cheltenham, in England, on 23 January 1918.

[8][9] Ted's brother Harry Cordner — "Harry" Cordner, who was overseas at the time that war broke out, was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served in France.

He left Australia for England in 1913 to advance his medical career, and did not play in the VFL ever again.

Captain (later, Major) Edward Rae Cordner, served as a medical officer in the 6th Field Ambulance.

[18][19] This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1887 is a stub.