Eric Milroy

Eric Milroy
Full name Eric MacLeod Milroy
Date of birth (1887-12-04)4 December 1887
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death 18 July 1916(1916-07-18) (aged 28)
Place of death Delville Wood, France
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Scrum-half
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
Watsonians RFC
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1910-1914 Scotland Scotland 12 (3)

Military career

Allegiance  United Kingdom

Eric "Puss" MacLeod Milroy (4 December 1887 – 18 July 1916) was a Scottish rugby union player who played club rugby for Watsonians and international rugby for Scotland.[1]

He was capped for Scotland between 1910-14[1] and was selected for the 1910 British Isles tour to South Africa.[2] In 1914, he captained Scotland.

Milroy was killed in Delville Wood, France in World War I, while serving with the Black Watch. He was one of 31 Scottish rugby internationals to be killed in action.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Bath, p109
  2. Bath, p118
  3. Fraser, Graham (22 December 2014). "World War One: The story of Scotland's rugby stars". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 22 December 2014.

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