William Campbell Church
Capt. William Campbell Church (5 August 1883 – 28 June 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.[1]
Church was born in Partick, Glasgow, to William Reginald Monteith Church, a chartered accountant and stockbroker, and Christina Ainslie Church.[2] He was educated at South African College. He moved to Scotland to attend university, where he played for Glasgow Academicals and was capped for Scotland in 1906.[3]
He was killed in action in World War I while serving with the Cameronians during the Gallipoli Campaign.[3] He is on the Helles Memorial for the missing at Gallipoli.[4]
References
- ↑ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- ↑ "1883 CHURCH, WILLIAM CAMPBEL (Statutory registers Births 646/3 1096)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. (Subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 Bath, p. 109
- ↑ "Casualty: Captain Church, William Campbell". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
External links
- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009
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