Stephen Steyn

Stephen Sebastian Leonard Steyn (died on 8 December 1917, aged 28) was a Scottish rugby union player. He was killed in World War I^[1]

He played for Oxford University RFC and was capped for Scotland in 1911-12.^[1] He was killed on 8 December 1917, aged 28, while serving with the Royal Field Artillery. He is buried at the Jerusalem War Cemetery and his grave can be found there.

References

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)

1 2 Bath, p109

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/648224/STEYN,%20STEPHANUS%20SEBASTIAN%20LOMBARD

External links

Commonwealth War Graves database
An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)

Scottish rugby players killed in World War I

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