Walter Sutherland

Not to be confused with Walter Sutherland (Norn).

Walter Riddell Sutherland (1890 - 4 October 1918), also known as Wattie Suddie^[1] from Hawick was a Scottish rugby union footballer who gained 13 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1910 and 1914 and was regarded as the best Scottish wing threequarter of his day.^[2] He played for Hawick RFC.^[2]

The outbreak of the First World War put end to his rugby career, and he served with the Lothians and Border Horse, later the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and finally the Seaforth Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Sutherland was killed on 4 October 1918, several weeks before the armistice, aged 27.

References

Bogle, Kenneth, Walter Sutherland Scotland's Rugby Legend 1890 1918 (ISBN 0-7524-3613-9)

↑ McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London ISBN 0-09-173875-X), p19
1 2 Bath, p109

External links

Scotsman article
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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