Rugby player
| Birth name | Alexander William Angus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1889-02-24)24 February 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 May 1915(1915-05-22) (aged 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hooge, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Pearson (24 February 1889 – 22 May 1915) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Centre. At the First World War, Pearson joined the Royal Scots as a soldier; he was killed in Second Battle of Ypres.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Pearson was born in Dalkeith, Midlothian. He was educated at George Watson's College, where he played cricket for the Watsonians. A friend encouraged him to take up rugby as well, and he soon excelled at that as well.
Provincial career
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1910 inter-city match. Edinburgh won the match 26-5.
International career
He earned 12 caps for Scotland between 1909–13.
Military career
He served as a Private with the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots during the war. Following the Second Battle of Ypres, he was shot and killed by a sniper while going for water in Sanctuary Wood in May 1915.
He is buried at Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (plot VE 27) but also remembered on the special memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War, at Fromelles in north France.
References
- ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany, p. 109. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. pp. 190–191. ISBN 9781781590874. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Casualty Details: Pearson, James". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- https://www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/private-james-pearson/
External links
- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009
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