George Pugh (rugby union)
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| Birth name | George Harold Pugh[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 16 January 1890[2][1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glebe, New South Wales[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 5 September 1916 (aged 26)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | France[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
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Lt. George Harold Pugh (16 January 1890 – 5 September 1916) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Pugh, a lock, was born in Glebe, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.[5]
Pugh enlisted in the British army in 1912 and trained for six weeks in Liverpool, and joined the Liverpool Regiment as a second lieutenant. He joined the Australian Expeditionary Force in 1915.[2] He was killed in action in the First World War while serving with the 4th Battalion of the Australian Infantry. He is buried at the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground in Ypres.[3]
See also
[edit]- List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War
- 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Scrum.com player profile of George Pugh". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
- ^ a b "Casualty Details: George Harold Pugh". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ^ Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003
- ^ Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, The Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p.15.
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