Date of birth | 5 May 1921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Rochdale, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 16 October 2023 | (aged 102)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eric Tweedale (5 May 1921 – 16 October 2023) was an English-born Australian international rugby union player. He played club rugby for Parramatta Two Blues, provincial rugby for New South Wales and internationally for the Australia national rugby union team as a prop.[1] Between 5 May 2021 and his death, he was the oldest living Australian rugby international.[2]