About Brian Oxenham
Lived 1916 – 1995 (aged 78–79). Brian Oxenham was a rugby union player.
Brian Bede Aloysius Oxenham (8 December 1916 – 10 April 1995) was an Australian international rugby union player.
Born and raised in Sydney, Oxenham was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, and in addition to rugby excelled in athletics as a schoolboy, winning a GPS 880 yards championship. He began playing rugby for Sydney University during the late 1930s, having gone there to study medicine.
Oxenham made the Wallabies squad for the 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland, as one of four flankers selected. He represented the Wallabies in a match in Bombay on the way over, but would never get an opportunity to gain a cap, with the tour getting called off soon after they arrived in England, due to the war.
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Who was Brian Oxenham?
Australian rugby player (1916–1995)
When was Brian Oxenham born?
Brian Oxenham was born in 1916.
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Brian Oxenham died in 1995.
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Brian Oxenham was a rugby union player.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Brian Oxenham. https://biography.guide/brian-oxenham/
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