This is one of a series of posts to mark the international Rugby players who served in, and survived, The Great War. If anyone has further...
Annie Thanks for picking up my mistake - adding the 's' - though I notice that I'm not the only one to have made it. That's how his name appears...
Annie I don't know of him, but I haven't researched Rugby League players unless they'd previously played Rugby [Union] at international level....
Annie Thanks for the photo. 25 is reasonably young for an international front-row forward; it's said that they often mature at about 30....
Annie Thanks for the photo. I read somewhere, a long time ago, about a man who said that he would go to his maker happy, as he'd seen Albert...
robco Who's Who of International Rugby doesn't mention his war service, so I'd missed him. His DSO citation, from the Gazette of 13 April 1915:...
robco Thanks. It looks like data has been added at scrum.com since I last looked a few years ago. Gareth
Annie I think that this bloke might be your man. Wilson, Charles Edward Légion d’Honneur played for England Internationals: 1: 1898 I-...
He obviously had at least two interests in life. Though I suppose that he lived in the days before television, and didn't have that to help him pass...
Annie No, I didn't, so thank you very much. Gareth
Annie Merely stating the truth. Gareth
Robco Thanks for the information. Gareth
Dare I remark that it's rather difficult to imagine the entire England team scoring four tries in a match - let alone an individual player doing so!...
Mellish, Frank Whitmore MC JP played for England and South Africa England Internationals: 6 : England 1920 W- F+ I+ (1t) S+ ; 1921 W+ I+ ;...
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