FOOTBALLER’S DEATH
REPATRIATED PRISONER FROM ITALY. PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN RUGBY PLAYER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—copyright) SYDNEY, December 27. The death has occurred of Mi’ Russ Kelly, a repatriated prisoner-of-war and Australian Rugby Union international. He played for Australia against the Springboks in 1936 and against the All Blacks in 1938 and *1939. He was a brilliant forward. Kelly returned to Australia in September, 1939, and he was seriously wounded at Benghazi, and was in Italian hospitals and prisoner of war camps for two years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1943, Page 2
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82FOOTBALLER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1943, Page 2
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