Full name Harold Holt Rippon Name Harold Rippon Date of birth 23 February 1874 Died January 16, 1917, France | Place of death France Years Club | |
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Date of death 16 January 1917(1917-01-16) (aged 42) 1898
1903
Total - Melbourne
South Melbourne | ||
Original team Caulfield Football Club | ||
Harold Holt Rippon (23 February 1874 – 16 January 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Rippon played five times for Melbourne in the 1898 VFL season and on one occasion, against St Kilda, appeared with his brothers Les and Norm Rippon.
He was a Private in the 2nd Pioneer Battalion during World War I and in 1917 died of wounds sustained while fighting in the Western Front.
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