James Huggan
James Laidlaw Huggan (died on 16 September 1914, aged 25) was a Scotland rugby union player. He was killed in World War I[1] at the First Battle of the Aisne.[2] He died two days after Ronald Simson, another Scottish player, who was the first rugby international to die in the conflict, and who was also at the Aisne.[2]
Huggan played for London Scottish RFC, and had taken part in the last rugby international before the war, the Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh) in March 1914.[2] He scored three tries in that match.[2]
Huggan was a lieutenant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.[3]
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- ↑ Bath, p109
- 1 2 3 4 An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/bondofsacrificeb01clut#page/196/mode/2up/search/huggan
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