Rugby player
| Birth name | William Campbell Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1883-08-05)5 August 1883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Partick, Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 June 1915(1915-06-28) (aged 31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Gallipoli, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Capt. William Campbell Church (5 August 1883 – 28 June 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.
Early life
Church was born in Partick, Glasgow, to William Reginald Monteith Church, a chartered accountant and stockbroker, and Christina Ainslie Church. He was educated at Glasgow Academy but left for Switzerland in 1902. He was educated at South African College.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He moved back to Scotland to attend university, where he played for Glasgow Academicals. He played on the wing for rugby union side.
Provincial career
He was capped by Glasgow District in 1906.
International career
Church was capped for Scotland in 1906. He was also selected to play against New Zealand but he declined this.
Military career
He was killed in action in World War I while serving with the Cameronians during the Gallipoli campaign. He is on the Helles Memorial for the missing at Gallipoli.
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- "William Campbell Church". ESPN scrum.
- "1883 CHURCH, WILLIAM CAMPBEL (Statutory registers Births 646/3 1096)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
- ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Captain William Campbell Church". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk.
- "William Campbell Church : Rugby Player | Military History Forum". www.militarian.com.
- "Rugby international among new names to be added to university war memorial". The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee). 25 June 2018 – via PressReader.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Bath, p. 109
- "Casualty: Captain Church, William Campbell". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- "William Campbell Church – Friends of Glasgow Necropolis". www.glasgownecropolis.org.
External links
- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009
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