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James Huggan
Birth nameJames Laidlaw Huggan
Date of birth(1888-10-11)11 October 1888
Place of birthJedburgh, Scotland
Date of death16 September 1914(1914-09-16) (aged 25)
Place of deathAisne. France
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Jed-Forest ()
– Edinburgh University ()
– London Scottish ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1910 South of Scotland ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1914 Scotland 1 (9)

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

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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

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Amateur career

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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

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He played for the South of Scotland in 1910.[4]

International career

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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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Memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War, at Fromelles

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

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  1. ^ Bath, p. 109
  2. ^ a b c "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman. 6 November 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19101212/102/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "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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