Full name Ronald G. Larking Name Ron Larking Years Club | Positions Full-forward | |
Date of birth (1890-09-10)10 September 1890 Date of death 1 May 1918(1918-05-01) (aged 27) Role Australian Rules Footballer Died May 1, 1918, Neuve-Eglise, France | ||
Original team(s) Melbourne Grammar Place of death Neuve-Eglise, France | ||
Ronald Guy Larking was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League. His only VFL game was as a full-forward against Fitzroy Football Club in the last game of the 1909 season.
He enlisted to serve in World War I, and became a Despatch rider. He was awarded a Military Cross and Bar for bravery, but was later killed in a motorcycling accident in 1918.
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