Playing Career
Thicknesse was a half-back with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Club before switching to the professional code in 1931 and joining Eastern Suburbs' rugby league side. He was a member of the Tricolours' champion teams of the 1930s and won consecutive premierships with the club in the seasons of 1935, 1936 and NSWRL season 1937. He captained the 1937 side.
He represented for New South Wales on eleven occasions between 1933 and 1936 and made his international debut for Australia on the 1933-34 Kangaroo tour where he appeared in two Tests and in sixteen minor matches. He played in further Test series against New Zealand in 1935 and against Great Britain in 1936 for a total of seven career Test appearances. He formed a formidable representative halves pairing with Wests great Vic Hey and with his Easts clubmate Ernie Norman.
He attended Sydney Boys High School in the 1920s.
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