Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Rugby union internationals killed in WWI

Welcome to Operation Burning Gold, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject.

Purpose & scope

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This project is intended to ensure quality coverage of all the international rugby players who died in the First World War. In total, over 130 men who played for England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or France were killed in action between 1914 and 1919. The milestones for each article are:

  1. There is an article for every player.
  2. Each article is taken to Did you know... (unless disqualified due to DYK rules).
  3. Every article achieves Good article status or above.

Ideally, these milestones should be reached by the centenary of the death of the player.

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1914

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Player Affiliation Died DYK Class Editor(s) engaged
Alfred Mayssonnié   France 6 September 1914  
Ronald Francis Simson   Scotland 14 September 1914  
James Laidlaw Huggan   Scotland 16 September 1914  
Charles Edward Wilson   England 17 September 1914  
Emmanuel Iguinitz   France 20 September 1914  
Gaston Lane   France 23 September 1914  
Joé Anduran   France 2 October 1914  
Bungy Watson   England 15 October 1914     FunkyCanute
Sidney Nelson Crowther British Isles (English) 18 October 1914  
James Ross   Scotland 31 October 1914  
Lewis Robertson   Scotland 3 November 1914     FunkyCanute
Francis Eckley Oakeley   England 25 November 1914   FunkyCanute
François Poeydebasque   France 21 December 1914  

1915

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41 players were killed in 1915. The first Welshman, Charles Taylor, the first Kiwi, Doolan Downing, the first Australian, Edward Larkin, the first Irishman, Basil Maclear. South Africa suffered its first rugby casualties in 1915. The English, Scots and French had already lost players in 1914.

Player Affiliation Died DYK Class Editor(s) engaged
Frederick Harding Turner   Scotland 10 January 1915  
Percy Dale Kendall   England 21 January 1915  
Charles Taylor   Wales 24 January 1915    
Ronald Lagden   England 3 March 1915  
Alexander Todd   England 21 April 1915  
Edward Larkin   Australia 25 April 1915  
Blair Swannell   Australia 25 April 1915     GA
Ronald Poulton   England 5 May 1915     FunkyCanute
Henry Berry   England 9 May 1915  
Harold Wesley George   Australia 10 May 1915  
Paul Depré   France 15 May 1915
James Pearson   Scotland 22 May 1915   FunkyCanute
Basil Maclear   Ireland 24 May 1915   FunkyCanute
Albert Eutropius   France 26 May 1915  
Fred Thompson   Australia 29 May 1915  
David McLaren Bain   Scotland 3 June 1915  
William Moore Bell Nanson   England 4 June 1915  
Paul Decamps   France 27 June 1915  
Marcel Legrain   France 27 June 1915  
William Campbell Church   Scotland 28 June 1915  
Ron Rogers British Lions 28 June 1915  
Eric Templeton Young   Scotland 28 June 1915  
Patrick Charles Bentley Blair   Scotland 6 July 1915  
Frank Tarr   England 18 July 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Billy Geen   Wales 31 July 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Doolan Downing   New Zealand 8 August 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Henry Dewar   New Zealand 9 August 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Pierre Guillemin   France 18 August 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Arthur James Dingle   England 22 August 1915     GA FunkyCanute
William Middleton Wallace   Scotland 22 August 1915   GA FunkyCanute
David Bedell-Sivright   Scotland 5 September 1915     GA
René Boudreaux   France 8 September 1915   FunkyCanute
Jack Verge   Australia 8 September 1915       FunkyCanute
Ernest Deane MC   Ireland 25 September 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Walter Michael Dickson   Scotland 26 September 1915   FunkyCanute
Richard Garnons Williams   Wales 28 September 1915     GA FunkyCanute
Douglas Lambert   England 13 October 1915     FunkyCanute
Harry Alexander   England 17 October 1915     FunkyCanute
Vincent McNamara   Ireland 29 November 1915    
Robert Burgess   Ireland 9 December 1915    
John Henry Dods   Scotland 31 December 1915  

1916

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29 players were killed in 1916. South Africa suffered its first rugby casualties.

Player Affiliation Died DYK Class Editor(s) engaged
Dave Howie   Scotland 19 January 1916     FunkyCanute
Lou Phillips   Wales 14 March 1916     GA FunkyCanute
Robertson Smyth   Ireland 5 April 1916     FunkyCanute
Andrew Ross   Scotland 6 April 1916     GA FunkyCanute
Jacky Morkel   South Africa 15 May 1916     FunkyCanute
Paul Dupré   France 31 May 1916   FunkyCanute
Cecil Abercrombie   Scotland 31 May 1916     FunkyCanute
John Skinner Wilson   Scotland 31 May 1916     FunkyCanute
Tommy Thompson   South Africa 20 June 1916     FunkyCanute
Rowland Fraser   Scotland 1 July 1916     FunkyCanute
Dick Thomas   Wales 7 July 1916  
Robert Pillman   England 9 July 1916  
Johnny Williams   Wales 12 July 1916     GA FunkyCanute
David Watts   Wales 14 July 1916  
Toby Moll   South Africa 14 July 1916   FunkyCanute
Eric Milroy   Scotland 18 July 1916     FunkyCanute
Leonard Haigh   England 6 August 1916  
John Abbott King   England 9 August 1916  
Charlie Pritchard   Wales 14 August 1916  
Marcel Burgun   France 2 September 1916  
Horace Thomas   Wales 3 September 1916  
George Pugh   Australia 5 September 1916  
Rupert Edward Inglis   England 18 September 1916    
Frank Wilson   New Zealand 19 September 1916  
Robert Stanley Black ("Bobby Black")   New Zealand 21 September 1916  
Henri Lacassagne   France 11 November 1916  
Alfred Frederick Maynard   England 13 November 1916  
Julien Dufau   France 28 December 1916  
Jean Larribau   France 31 December 1916  

1917

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26 players were killed in 1917.

Player Affiliation DYK Class Editor(s) engaged
Jasper Brett   Ireland 4 February 1917  
John George Will   Scotland 25 March 1917  
Brinley Richard Lewis ("Bryn Lewis")   Wales 2 April 1917  
Thomas Arthur Nelson   Scotland 9 April 1917  
Septimus Heyns Ledger ("Sep Ledger")   South Africa 13 April 1917  
Daniel Ihingoué   France 16 April 1917
Walter Torrie Forrest   Scotland 19 April 1917  
Albert Luvian Wade   Scotland 28 April 1917  
James Alexander Steenson Baird ("Jim Baird")   New Zealand 7 June 1917
George Maurice Victor Sellars   New Zealand 7 June 1917  
John Edward Raphael   England 11 June 1917  
Reginald Taylor ("Reg Taylor")   New Zealand 20 June 1917
Henri Isaac   France 20 June 1917
James McNeece ("Jim McNeece")   New Zealand 21 June 1917
Arthur James Wilson   England 1 July 1917   FunkyCanute
Edgar Roberts Mobbs   England 29 July 1917  
Alfred Squire Taylor   Ireland 31 July 1917
James Young Milne Henderson   Scotland 31 July 1917  
Marc Giacardy   France 20 August 1917  
David Westacott   Wales 27 August 1917  
Albert Stewart DSO   Ireland 4 October 1917    
David Gallaher ("Dave Gallaher")   New Zealand 4 October 1917  
John Argentine Campbell   Scotland 1 December 1917  
Stephen Sebastian Leonard Steyn   Scotland 8 December 1917  
Phillip Dudley Waller   Wales 14 December 1917  
William Victor Edwards   Ireland 29 December 1917

1918

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24 players were killed in 1918.

Player Affiliation Died DYK Class Editor(s) engaged
Jean-Jacques Conilh de Beyssac   France 13 June 1918  

Sources

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General

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Rugby Unions

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Digitised newspapers

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Other online sources

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Books

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  • Collins, Tony (2009). A Social History of English Rugby Union. Routledge. ISBN 9781134023356.
  • Billot, John (1974). Springboks in Wales. Ferndale, Glamorgan: Ron Jones Publications. OCLC 86022999.
  • Clutterbuck, L. A.; Dooner, W. T. (1917). The Bond of Sacrifice: A Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War. Vol. 1. Navy and Military Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1843422259.
  • Cooper, Stephen (2012). The Final Whistle The Great War in Fifteen Players. New York: The History Press. ISBN 9780752481241.
  • Corsan, James (2009). For Poulton and England: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Rugby Hero. Leicester: Matador. ISBN 978-1848762107.
  • Grant, Philip J (2010). Tommy Vile: A Giant of a Man. Llandysul: Gomer Press. ISBN 978-0-9567271-0-7.
  • Hagger, Mike (2014). Lest We Forget (PDF). no oclc/isbn. Twickenham: World Rugby Museum.
  • Marshall, Howard Percival (1951). Oxford v. Cambridge. The story of the University Rugby match. London: Clerke & Cockeran.
  • McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1473833210.
  • McEwen, Alistair (2014). Scottish Rugby Internationals Who Fell (PDF). University of Edinburgh.
  • McGibbon, Ian (2014). Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-1743486894.
  • Parry-Jones, David (1999). Prince Gwyn, Gwyn Nicholls and the First Golden Era of Welsh Rugby. Bridgend: seren. ISBN 1-85411-262-7.
  • Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1919). The Life of Ronald Poulton. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 9781298548184.
  • Prescott, Gwyn (2014). 'Call them to remembrance': the Welsh rugby internationals who died in the Great War. Cardiff: St David's Press. ISBN 978-1902719375. OCLC 886886160.
  • Richards, Huw (2014). The red and the white the story of England v Wales rugby. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1781313589.
  • Roderick, Alan (1995). Newport Rugby Greats. Newport, Gwent: Handpost Books. ISBN 0-9515213-5-7.
  • Sewell, Edward Humphrey Dalrymple (1919). The Rugby Football Internationals Roll of Honour. London, Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack.
  • Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.
  • Starmer-Smith, Nigel (1977). The Barbarians. Macdonald & Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-8600-7552-4.
  • Townsend Collins, W J (1948). Rugby Recollections. Newport: R. H. Johns. OCLC 60698254.

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