Isidor Harry Sender (8 November 1905 – 14 May 1943) was an Australian doctor, soldier and

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player. Born in

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, England, Sender grew up in a

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family in Sydney. His father, Leslie, served as treasurer of the Great Synagogue. He was educated at

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and the

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, where he graduated with a medical degree. Primarily a hooker, Sender played rugby league for

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in the

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and in 1924 toured New Zealand with an Australian Universities representative side. Sender enlisted into the Australian Army in 1940 and served initially with the Light Horse Brigade, before transferring to an ambulance unit. He died in the 1943 sinking off the Queensland coast of the hospital ship AHS Centaur, which had been transporting his unit to New Guinea. The ship was torpedoed by the Japanese.

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Isidor Sender
at Rugby League Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Sender, Isidor 1905 births 1943 deaths Australian Army personnel of World War II Australian military personnel killed in World War II Australian rugby league players English emigrants to Australia Jewish Australian sportspeople Jewish rugby league players People educated at Fort Street High School Rugby league hookers Rugby league players from Leeds Sydney Medical School alumni Sydney University rugby league team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen