List of England rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars

The following is a List of England international rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars. The number of caps they gained is in brackets. Where it is e.g. 9+1, the second number is the number of Lions caps.

First World War

There were 27 players killed in the First World War.

• Harry Alexander; (7) died on 17 October 1915 Aged 35 ^[1]
• Henry Berry; (4) died on 9 May 1915, Aged 32.^[1]
• Henry Brougham, died on 18 February 1923 (of war wounds), Aged 34.^[1]
• Arthur James Dingle; (3) died on 22 August 1915, Aged 23^[1][2]
• George Eric Burroughs Dobbs, (1) died on 17 June 1917, Aged 32.^[1][3]
• Leonard Haigh, (7) died on 6 August 1916 Aged 29.^{[1] [4]}
• Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands, (2) ("Reggie Hands") died on 20 April 1918, Aged 29^[1] Hands was a South African who played cricket for South Africa and rugby for England.
• Arthur Leyland Harrison VC; (2) died on 23 April 1918, Aged 32^[1]
• Harold Augustus Hodges; (2) died on 24 March 1918, Aged 32^[1][5]
• Rupert Edward Inglis; (3) died on 18 September 1916, Aged 53^[1][6]
• Percy Dale Kendall; (3) died on 21 January 1915, Aged 34^[1][7]
• John Abbott King; (12) died on 9 August 1916, Aged 32^[1][8]
• Ronald Lagden; (1) died on 3 March 1915, Aged 26^[1][9]
• Douglas Lambert; (7) died on 13 October 1915, Aged 32 ^[1][10]
• Alfred Frederick Maynard; (3) died on 13 November 1916, Aged 22^[1][11]
• Edgar Roberts Mobbs, (7) ("Mobbsy") died on 29 July 1917, Aged 37 16^[1]
• William Moore Bell Nanson; (2) died on 4 June 1915, Aged 34 ^[1][12]
• Francis Eckley Oakeley; (4) died on 25 November 1914, Aged 23 ^[1][13]
• Robert Lawrence Pillman; (1) died on 9 July 1916, Aged 23 17^[1][14]
• Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, (17) ("Ronnie Poulton") died on 5 May 1915, Aged 25 ^[1]
• John Raphael, (9+1) died on 11 June 1917, Aged 35^{[1] [15]}
• Reginald Oscar Schwarz MC, ("Reggie Schwarz") (3) died on 18 November 1918, Aged 43 .^[1] Schwarz also played cricket for South Africa and rugby union for England.
• Lancelot Slocock; (8) died on 9 August 1918, Aged 29^[1]
• Francis Nathaniel Tarr; (4) died on 18 July 1915, Aged 27 ^[1][16]
• Alexander Todd, (2+4) died on 21 April 1915, Aged 41 ^[1]
• James Henry Digby Watson; (3) died on 15 October 1914, Aged 24.^[1][17]
• Charles Edward Wilson; (1) died on 17 September 1914, Aged 43
• Arthur James Wilson, (1) died on 1 July 1917, Aged 29^[1]

Second World War

There were 14 players killed in the Second World War:

• Brian Henry Black (10+5)^[18]
• Lewis Alfred Booth (7)^[19]
• Paul Cooke (2)^[20]
• Vivian Gordon Davies (2)^[21]
• H.D. Freakes (3)
• R.A. Gerrard (14)
• W. G. E. Luddington (13)
• Robert Michall Marshall (5)^[22]
• A. Obolensky (4)
• Ernest Ian Parsons(1)^[23]
• Henry Rew (10+4)^[24]
• Christopher Champain Tanner (5)^[25]
• Derek Edmund Teden (3)^[26]
• N.A. Wodehouse (14)

See also

• List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War

External links

• http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/rugbyatwar.html

References

• Starmer-Smith, Nigel (ed) Rugby - A Way of Life, An Illustrated History of Rugby (Lennard Books, 1986 ISBN 0-7126-2662-X)

1. Starmer-Smith, p42
2. CWGC Dingle
3. CWGC Dodds
4. CWGC - Haigh
5. CWGC - Hodges
6. CWGC - Inglis
7. CWGC - Kendall
8. King - CWGC entry
9. "Ronald Lagden". The Rugby History Society.
10. CWGC - Lambert
11. CWGC - Maynard
12. CWGC - Nanson
13. CWGC - Oakeley
14. CWGC - Pillman
15. "John Raphael". Cricinfo.
16. CWGC - Tarr
17. CWGC - Watson
18. CWGC - Black
19. CWGC - Booth
20. CWGC - Cooke
21. CWGC - Davies
22. CWGC - Marshall
23. CWGC - Parsons
24. CWGC - Rew
25. CWGC - Tanner
26. CWGC - Teden