Harry Fricker

Harry Fricker was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who was one of the founding players of the Ponsonby United team.

Harry Fricker originally played rugby for the Ponsonby District Football Club and was a junior representative player while there.

[2] In 1910 he switched to rugby league as part of a large group of players from the Ponsonby club who changed codes at the same time.

He was part of the New Zealand Field Troop of Engineers who originally camped in Epsom before travelling to Palmerston North.

[6] In June 1917 Sergeant Harry Fricker was awarded a military medal for “acts of gallantry in the field” while serving as an Engineer at the battle of Messines.