Osborn from Koo Wee Rup, Victoria competed in the 1928 Tour de France with fellow Australians Hubert Opperman and Ernest Bainbridge and New Zealander Harry Watson where he finished 38th.
The Australians cycling tour of Europe was financed by a fund raising campaign run by The Sporting Globe.
[3] The race was held in four stages from the 14–19 November 1927, covering 690 miles (1110 km).
[5] Osborn lived and worked in Koo Wee Rup for the rest of his life, and died while a resident at Koo Wee Rup’s Killara hostel.
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