Frank Wrentmore

Frank Wrentmore
Personal information
Full name Frank Wrentmore
Born October→December 1884
Pontypridd, Wales
Playing information
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1908–08 Penygraig RFC
Rugby league
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1908–09 Mid-Rhondda
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org

Frank Wrentmore (birth registered during October→December 1884 in Pontypridd) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Penygraig RFC, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Mid-Rhondda, he served with the Somerset Light Infantry with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.

Notable tour matches

Frank Wrentmore scored a try in Mid-Rhondda's 6–20 defeat by Australia at King George's Park, Tonypandy (Athletic Ground), Tonypandy.[1]

Christmas truce

Frank Wrentmore participated in the Christmas truce, a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, during the World War I.[2]

References

  1. Peter Lush, David Farrar (1998). "Tries in the Valley: A History of Rugby League in Wales". London League Publications Ltd. ISBN 0952606437
  2. "Christmas Truce 1914 → Wales". christmastruce.co.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

External links

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