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 information on the men concerned, I’d be most grateful if it could be added to the thread. Gareth Hamersley, Alfred St George KC (Can) MP played for England Internationals: 4 : 1871 S- ; 1872 S+ (1t) ; 1873 S= ; 1874 S+ Alfred Hamersley was born on 8 October 1848, in Great Hasely Oxfordshire Played as a Forward for: Marlborough College, Marlborough Nomads, Canterbury (NZ) Profession: Lawyer/MP War service: Temporary Major, Royal Garrison Artillery from 1 March 1915, late Lieutenant Colonel New Zealand Artillery. In 1917, aged 68, he went to France as a Lieutenant Colonel. He relinquished his commission on the grounds of ill health on 4 January 1918. Remarks: Played in the first international, England v Scotland, in 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1873. Conservative MP for Woodstock 1910-1918. He is credited with furthering the game in NZ and Canada on visits there. Captained Canterbury (NZ). Legal adviser to City of Vancouver and Canadian Pacific Railway. He died on 25 February 1929, in Bournemouth.
I found this ... but I can't find Part One !!!!!!!! .... scroll down to page 6 ( and see his picture too ! ) ! ......... theres some other bits and pieces that maybe of interest also ! An Oxfordshire Sporting Gentleman - Alfred St. George Hammersley Part Two http://www.rugby-memorabilia.co.uk/touchlines_apr09.pdf http://www.archive.org/stream/footballrugbyuni00marsrich/footballrugbyuni00marsrich_djvu.txt http://books.google.com/books?id=_Q...6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Maryborough Nomads&f=false
Heres his marriage notice ... Nelson Evening Mail - Mon 30 October 1876 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlnelso/nelson/evening_mail_1875.htm
And this is his wife's brother - who was an artist .. now theres an interesting man ! Ernest Hastings Snow (1855 - c.1900) was the third child of Charles Hastings Snow and Helen Clara Piers, early European settlers of Wellington. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Wiber in 1880. They had six children, most of whom were born in Palmerston North. Ernest went with three of his sons to fight the Boer War. The young men remained there while Ernest returned to New Zealand. His sketchbook consists of pen and ink and water-colour drawings, press-clippings and coloured picture cards.
Heres his obituary ! http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...AxoTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vJYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5460,754582
