David James Baxter (15 December 1910 – 2 December 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). I ...

(VFL) between 1934 and 1936 for the Richmond Football Club. Baxter's son, David Junior, was a member of the Tigers' under-19s 1973 premiership side and his brother-in-law,

Leo Merrett Leo Frederick Merrett (5 April 1920 – 18 October 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in between 1940 and 1949 for the Richmond Football Club. Family The son of Frederick Merrett, and Ellen Clarice Merrett, née ...

, was a member of Richmond's 1943 senior premiership team. Baxter later served in the Volunteer Defence Corps as part of the Australian Army during World War II.

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References

* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996.

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* Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 1910 births 1978 deaths Volunteer Defence Corps soldiers VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1910-stub