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Purpose & scope[edit]This project is intended to ensure quality coverage of all the international rugby players who died in the First World War. In total, over 130 men who played for England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or France were killed in action between 1914 and 1919. The milestones for each article are:
Ideally, these milestones should be reached by the centenary of the death of the player. |
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Open tasks[edit]
1914[edit]
| 1914: 38.5% complete | ||
| Player | Affiliation | Died | DYK | Class | Editor(s) engaged |
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| Alfred Mayssonnié |  France |
6 September 1914 | 
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| Ronald Francis Simson |  Scotland |
14 September 1914 | 
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| James Laidlaw Huggan | Scotland |
16 September 1914 |
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| Charles Edward Wilson |  England |
17 September 1914 |
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| Emmanuel Iguinitz | France |
20 September 1914 |
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| Gaston Lane | France |
23 September 1914 |
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| Joé Anduran | France |
2 October 1914 |
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| Bungy Watson | England |
15 October 1914 |  |
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| Sidney Nelson Crowther | British Isles (English) | 18 October 1914 | 
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| James Ross | Scotland |
31 October 1914 |
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| Lewis Robertson | Scotland |
3 November 1914 | |
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| Francis Eckley Oakeley | England |
25 November 1914 | |
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| François Poeydebasque | France |
21 December 1914 |
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1915[edit]
41 players were killed in 1915. The first Welshman, Charles Taylor, the first Kiwi, Doolan Downing, the first Australian, Edward Larkin, the first Irishman, Basil Maclear. South Africa suffered its first rugby casualties in 1915. The English, Scots and French had already lost players in 1914.
| 1915: 56.9% complete | ||
1916[edit]
29 players were killed in 1916. South Africa suffered its first rugby casualties.
| 1916: 50.6% complete | ||
1917[edit]
26 players were killed in 1917.
| 1917: 26.9% complete | ||
1918[edit]
24 players were killed in 1918.
| Player | Affiliation | Died | DYK | Class | Editor(s) engaged |
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| Jean-Jacques Conilh de Beyssac | France |
13 June 1918 |
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Sources[edit]
General[edit]
Rugby Unions[edit]
- Wallabies who served in WWI
- France XV
- Wales Player Archive
- All Blacks A to Z
- Springboks - use {{SA Rugby Player Profile}}
Digitised newspapers[edit]
- British Newspaper Archive
- Welsh Newspapers Online
- National Library of New Zealand: Papers Past
- Gallica: Bibliothèque numérique
- National Library of Australia: Trove
Other online sources[edit]
Books[edit]
- Collins, Tony (2009). A Social History of English Rugby Union. Routledge. ISBN 9781134023356.
- Billot, John (1974). Springboks in Wales. Ferndale, Glamorgan: Ron Jones Publications. OCLC 86022999.
- Clutterbuck, L. A.; Dooner, W. T. (1917). The Bond of Sacrifice: A Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War. Vol. 1. Navy and Military Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1843422259.
- Cooper, Stephen (2012). The Final Whistle The Great War in Fifteen Players. New York: The History Press. ISBN 9780752481241.
- Corsan, James (2009). For Poulton and England: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Rugby Hero. Leicester: Matador. ISBN 978-1848762107.
- Grant, Philip J (2010). Tommy Vile: A Giant of a Man. Llandysul: Gomer Press. ISBN 978-0-9567271-0-7.
- Hagger, Mike (2014). Lest We Forget (PDF). no oclc/isbn. Twickenham: World Rugby Museum.
- Marshall, Howard Percival (1951). Oxford v. Cambridge. The story of the University Rugby match. London: Clerke & Cockeran.
- McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1473833210.
- McEwen, Alistair (2014). Scottish Rugby Internationals Who Fell (PDF). University of Edinburgh.
- McGibbon, Ian (2014). Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-1743486894.
- Parry-Jones, David (1999). Prince Gwyn, Gwyn Nicholls and the First Golden Era of Welsh Rugby. Bridgend: seren. ISBN 1-85411-262-7.
- Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1919). The Life of Ronald Poulton. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 9781298548184.
- Prescott, Gwyn (2014). 'Call them to remembrance': the Welsh rugby internationals who died in the Great War. Cardiff: St David's Press. ISBN 978-1902719375. OCLC 886886160.
- Richards, Huw (2014). The red and the white the story of England v Wales rugby. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1781313589.
- Roderick, Alan (1995). Newport Rugby Greats. Newport, Gwent: Handpost Books. ISBN 0-9515213-5-7.
- Sewell, Edward Humphrey Dalrymple (1919). The Rugby Football Internationals Roll of Honour. London, Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack.
- Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.
- Starmer-Smith, Nigel (1977). The Barbarians. Macdonald & Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-8600-7552-4.
- Townsend Collins, W J (1948). Rugby Recollections. Newport: R. H. Johns. OCLC 60698254.
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