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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Before being tragically killed in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in December, Peter \u201cMarzo\u201d Meagher\u2019s life had been defined by service to the NSW Police and for Randwick Rugby Club. Meagher\u2019s work for others was tireless and time-consuming, but it was always done without ceremony.<\/p>\n On Saturday, before Randwick\u2019s first home game of the Shute Shield season against Eastern Suburbs, it was fitting that Meagher was given a memorial that put him centre stage, with his nickname, Marzo, painted in bold capitals on the field at Coogee Oval.<\/p>\n Three parts of Meagher\u2019s world were represented: family, Randwick Rugby Club and the police. His wife, Virginia, was joined by brothers Greg, Paul and Andrew. The NSW Police band played both Randwick and Eastern Suburbs players onto the field. A large crowd had gathered to fill the ground from early afternoon, with queues outside the gate.<\/p>\n Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh and NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon also joined both teams for a minute\u2019s silence to remember a man who always put others before himself.<\/p>\n After 35 years of distinguished service with the NSW Police, Meagher had enjoyed spending more time on his other passion, photography, and tragically, this had placed him in harm\u2019s way on December 14 at Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n Meagher had been taking photographs of a large Hanukkah gathering for the local Jewish community before he was killed.<\/p>\n The Meagher family have been involved with Randwick Rugby Club for more than 100 years, with Peter first volunteering as a ball boy at Coogee Oval at five years of age.<\/p>\n He went on to referee more than 500 games, spent two decades as team manager for lower grades and the last eight years helping to run the first-grade team at the Galloping Greens.<\/p>\n Former Wallaby and Randwick player Morgan Turinui had watched Meagher do countless unsung and unseen jobs since he was a junior player at the club, but ahead of the first home game of the season, it was clear to everyone just how irreplaceable Marzo was.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone\u2019s feeling the absence of Marzo and in the lead up to the game, they were still discovering little things that he would do that we just assumed were done somehow,\u201d Turinui said.<\/p>\n \u201cThings we\u2019d never thought of that he\u2019d just do, now people are having to get the jerseys, organise them, put them in lockers, lots and lots of little things that you just take for granted.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was volunteering for rugby pretty much every season of his life, he was Randwick rugby royalty, but you wouldn\u2019t have known it. He was very quiet and unassuming; he just got work done, there was never any fuss.\u201d<\/p>\n Everything that Meagher did came with huge effort and dedication, but also was compartmentalised. At Randwick, he was fully focused on ensuring that every player had everything they needed to perform, whether it was spare strapping or a kind word before going on the field.<\/p>\n![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4447c3d8e749bfe0b482bfc324f1fd6cfe5f4ece.jpeg\")
Peter Meagher served in the NSW Police Force for 35 years alongside a lifetime of dedicated service to Randwick Rugby Club.Meagher family<\/p>\n![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cc5fd3cf20965761c1417a95104fc8de03f3cf02.jpeg\")
Peter Meagher, a Bondi Beach mass shooting victim, is farewelled by Randwick at the Coogee Oval.Audrey Richardson<\/p>\n![\"Virginia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/90d96e23bb3a0b533985a1e5db87c98d6bc51f77.jpeg\")
Virginia Wynne-Markham attends a memorial service for her husband Peter at the Coogee OvalAudrey Richardson<\/p>\n
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