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| Birth name | James Laidlaw Huggan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 11 October 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Jedburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 16 September 1914 (aged 25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Aisne. France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Laidlaw Huggan (11 October 1888 – 16 September 1914) was a Scotland rugby union player. He was killed in World War I[1] at the First Battle of the Aisne.[2]
Early life
[edit]James Huggan was born in Jedburgh on 11 October 1888.[3] He was educated at Darlington Grammar School before reading medicine at the University of Edinburgh.[3]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Huggan played for Jed-Forest. On moving to Edinburgh University to study he then played for Edinburgh University.
He then moved to play for London Scottish.
Provincial career
[edit]He played for the South of Scotland in 1910.[4]
International career
[edit]He had taken part in the last rugby international before the war, the Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh) in March 1914, scoring three tries in the game.[2]
Military career
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Huggan was a lieutenant of the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards.[3] He is commemorated at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial.[5] He died two days after Ronald Simson, another Scottish player, who was the first rugby international to die in the conflict, and who was also at the Aisne.[2]
Huggan is among the 133 names of rugby players killed in the Great War on the memorial at Fromelles in north France.
References
[edit]- ^ Bath, p. 109
- ^ a b c "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman. 6 November 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ a b c Clutterbuck, L. A. (2002). The Bond of Sacrifice: A Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War. Vol. 1. Navy and Military Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1843422259.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19101212/102/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Casualty". cwgc.org. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
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