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Christian Melville

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Christian Melville
Birth nameChristian Landale Melville
Date of birth(1913-12-09)9 December 1913
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of death23 April 1984(1984-04-23) (aged 69)
Place of deathDorset, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Black Watch
Army
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Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1938 Scotland Probables ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1937 Scotland 3 (0)

Christian Melville (9 December 1913 – 23 April 1984) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]

Rugby union career

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Amateur career

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Melville played for the Black Watch and the Army.[2]

Provincial career

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He was supposed to play for the Scotland Probables in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost, despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the Scotland Probables side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938.[3]

International career

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He was capped three times for Scotland, all in 1937.[4]

Military career

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Melville was in the Black Watch where he was a Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the DSO in 1945.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Christian Landale Melville". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  2. ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380117/026/0004. Retrieved 30 October 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Christian Melville - Test matches". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19450413/010/0002. Retrieved 30 October 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany. Vision Sports Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-905326-24-6.