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Jack Simpson (rugby league)

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A former schoolboy rugby player from St. Josephs College, Jack Simpson played rugby league with
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Whiticker/Hudson – The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players (1995 Edtn.)
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FOOTBALLER KILLED (Daily Telegraph, Sydney) 21 April 1944, Page 16
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on the flight. The bomber's objective was to lay mines in the
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Australian military personnel killed in World War II
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St George
World War II
St. George Dragons
RAAF
Avro Lancaster
RAF Binbrook
Flight Sergeant
air bomber
Baltic Sea
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Rugby league halfbacks
Australian rugby league biography, 1910s birth stubs

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