Bert Grace

[3] Grace played rugby during his time at the Cranbrook School and afterwards competed as a centre for Sydney club Eastern Suburbs, winning a premiership in 1931.Following impressive performances for NSW in the 1932 Wallabies trials, Grace won an international call up for the 1933 tour of South Africa, selected to play on the right wing.He featured in five of the first eight tour matches in the lead up to the first Test, but his positional rival Doug McLean was preferred to play against the Springboks.By the end of the trip, Grace had played in ten tour matches, scoring four tries.In 1944, Grace was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his war service.
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