
Australian Rugby Union Team, 1939. Credit: World Rugby Museum, Twickenham.
Back row (l-r): George Pearson; Des Carrick; Jack ‘Straub’ Turnbull; Bill McLean; Mac Ramsay; Bill Monti; Stan Bisset; Boyd Oxlade; Brian Oxenham; Len Smith; Keith ‘Windy’ Windon
Middle row (l-r): Andy ‘Nicky’ Barr; Ron Rankin; Jack ‘Cracker’ McDonald; John ‘Steak’ Malone; Vic ‘Shirts’ Richards; Vay Wilson (captain); Dr Wally Matthews (manager); Eric ‘Mike’ de Courcy Gibbons (vice captain); Aub Hodgson; Vaux Nicholson; Jack ‘Jockey’ Kelaher; Alby Stone; Llewellyn ‘Welly or Wally’ Lewis
Front row (l-r): Mick Clifford; Cecil Ramalli; Basil Porter; Jeff Noseda (secretary); Max Gordon Carpenter; Paul Collins; Winston ‘Blow’ Ide
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