Full name | Maxwell Clarke White | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 September 1908 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Toowoomba, QLD, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 5 September 1979 | (aged 70)||||||||||||||||
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Maxwell Clarke White (19 September 1908 — 5 September 1979) was an Australian rugby union international.[1]
White, born in Toowoomba, Queensland, was the eldest son of Ray White, who founded the real estate agency of the same name. He attended The Southport School and played first-grade for Brisbane's YMCA club.[2]
Capped nine times for the Wallabies, White debuted on the 1931 tour of New Zealand. He played his early Tests in the back row, before being used as a makeshift prop on the 1933 tour of South Africa for all five Springboks matches.[2]
White served with the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II.[3]