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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.

Other resources

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